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Volunteer Energy Cooperative

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The History of Volunteer Energy Cooperative

In the early 1930s only four out of every one hundred farms in Tennessee were served with any form of electricity. Except for a few privately owned Delco battery power systems, the citizens of Meigs County lived and worked under primitive conditions when compared to their counterparts in the larger towns and cities.

Finally, a group of interested Meigs Countians approached the Tennessee Electric Power Company requesting that a power line be run from Athens to Decatur. The power company agreed to do so for the sum of $23,000. From Decatur, the county could extend its own lines, with the consumers bearing the full costs. Of course, this was an impossible financial undertaking for the citizens.

In 1933, Willis A. Shadow, University of Tennessee Agriculture Extension Agent for Meigs County, saw new hope for the residents along the Tennessee River with enactment by Congress of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Act. Mr. Shadow began talking "electricity" throughout the county. County Attorney J. W. Lillard joined the ranks, agreeing to furnish Mr. Shadow with legal advice without fee. Enthusiasm gained momentum until a mass meeting of 500 citizens at the Meigs County Courthouse resulted in the May 29, 1935 formation of the Meigs County Power Association, Incorporated, which later became the Meigs County Electric Membership Corporation. The name was changed in 1939 to Volunteer Electric Cooperative and in 2001 to Volunteer Energy Cooperative.

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529 Highway 58, PO Box 277
Decatur TN 37322 US

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Volunteer Energy Cooperative
+1 423 334 1020

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