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Texas Co-Op Power • May 2021 PEC BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION PROUD TO BE MEMBER LED As a PEC member, your vote determines the direction and leadership of our cooperative. This year, members in districts 1, 6, and 7 are eligible to vote for their board director. Voting runs May 19 through June 11. Vote early, and you’ll be entered into a drawing for prizes, including $500, $250, and $150 bill credits. pec.coop/election Pedernales Electric Cooperative PEC DUSTCOVER 2021 05.indd 20 4/7/21 11:18 AM Vote to elect your board director This year, members in districts 1, 6, and 7 are eligible to vote for the board director that represents their district and the issues that matter most in their area. Can I vote? If you received this, you may be eligible to vote. To confirm, check your bill to see whether you’re in district 1, 6, or 7. You may only vote in the race for your district. If you have any questions about eligibility, please call us at 888-554-4732. Who’s running this year? Visit pec.coop/election for information about candidates, including bios and videos. Early voting incentives Vote early and be entered into a drawing to win a bill credit in the following amounts: Three prizes for $500 during the first week of voting (through May 26), five prizes for $250 during the second week of voting (through June 2), and 25 prizes for $150 during the third week of voting (through June 9). Winners will be announced June 18, at the PEC Annual Meeting, but do not need to be present to win. We make voting easy. Here are all the ways to cast your ballot: Vote through your Watch your email Watch your Vote in-person PEC SmartHub for election mailbox at a PEC office. account. information. for election information. There is no in-person voting at the Annual Membership Meeting. For voting information and instructions, visit pec.coop/voting. PEC DUSTCOVER 2021 05.indd 21 4/7/21 11:18 AM Key statistics about your electric cooperative At PEC, we are more than an electric utility. We are a cooperative owned by our membership, and we believe it is important to share key information with our members. Review some key facts about your cooperative below. Additional information, such as an archive of annual reports, Form 990 compensation reporting, and key industry ratios, is available at pec.coop/archives. Average Cost Comparison (December 2020) 1,000 kWh 1,250 kWh 1,500 kWh 2,000 kWh PEC residential average $105.18 $128.60 $147.77 $190.36 Texas residential average* $118.70 $157.34 $178.05 $237.40 National residential average* $128.00 $163.20 $192.00 $256.00 Notes: PEC’s total cost to purchase energy is based on the actual cost billed to members. Source of U.S. EIA information is Form EIA-861M, Monthly Electric Power Industry Report, Table 5.6A - Average Price of Electricity to Ultimate Customers by End-Use Sector. *Total cost to purchase energy is estimated from the cost per kWh multiplied by the total energy purchased at 1,000; 1,250; 1,500; and 2,000 kWh. Active accounts (3/1/21) 351,340 2020 average outage time per account 42 minutes Members (3/1/21) 295,688 2020 percent growth in meters 5.6% Miles of line (3/1/21) 23,309 2020 J.D. Power Electric Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study score 842 Employees (3/1/21) 875 Board meetings held in 2020 15 Capital credits distributed in 2020 $6.3 million Members voting in 2020 PEC Board election 17,570 Fitch bond rating (affirmed January 2021) AA- Percentage of members participating in 2020 total assets $1.9 billion 2020 online voting who were “very satisfied” 96% Equity as a percentage of assets 40.06%¹ or “satisfied” with the online voting process 2020 revenue $643.5 million¹ 2020 PEC open records requests 31 2020 revenue percentage allocated ¹ 2020 community support to power cost 55.45% and member assistance $445,000 2020 distribution operating expenses ¹ per average meter $415 ¹Pre-audit figures, subject to change Revised March 2021 PEC DUSTCOVER 2021 05.indd 22 4/7/21 11:18 AM GIVE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE For an average of $0.49 a month, you can help support nonprofits in your area by enrolling in our Power of Change program. Visit pec.coop/power-of-change to learn how even more nonprofits benefit from the generosity of PEC members. 2020 RECIPIENTS Samaritan Health Ministries Wimberley Senior Center Friends of the Bulverde Area Rural Wimberley Valley Radio Library District FIRST in Texas Camp Phoenix Onion Creek Senior Center Patriots Hall of Dripping Springs Open Door Recovery House Science Mill Bergheim Volunteer Fire Department Join the Power of Change! Learn more at pec.coop/power-of-change. Pedernales Electric Cooperative PEC DUSTCOVER 2021 05.indd 23 4/7/21 11:18 AM 2105_local covers custom.qxp 4/13/21 1:32 PM Page 8 FOLK MUSIC THE HERO OF READER PHOTOS: in tHE FiELd CinCo dE MAyo HiStoRiC tExAS F o R P E d E R n A L E S E C M E M b E R S M Ay 2 0 2 1 Spinning Yarns Fiber of friendship for San Angelo cooperative comes straight off the hoof PLANTING PRACTICES HELP REDUCE COSTS S E E PA g E 2 2 P L U S 18 Working From Home? Remember Electrical Safety 20 Learn About PEC’s Camp Save-a-Watt contents May 2021 04 currents The latest buzz 06 tcp talk Readers respond 18 co-op news Information plus energy and safety tips from your cooperative 29 Footnotes in texas history The Hero of Cinco de Mayo By W.F. Strong 30 tcp Kitchen Potluck Dishes By Megan Myers 34 hit the road Used Cars 08 By Chet Garner 37 Focus on texas 12 Photo Contest: Serendipity Listening Historic Texas Spinners to Texas Members of a San Angelo How folklorists saved 38 observations cooperative spin wool from the soundtrack of the Universal Appeal their own flock. Lone Star State. By E. Dan Klepper By Brenda Kissko By Gene Fowler Photos by Kristin Tyler On tHe COver Colorful skeins of yarn created by the Serendipity Spinners. AbOve Peggy tharp, ruth Jordan and Sandy Pederson of the spinning club. Photos by Kristin Tyler texASCOOPPOwer.COM MAy 2021 TEXAS COOP POWER 3 Currents A Preponderance of Orthographers have proven masterful at spelling words that seemingly young texAnS come from a jostled Scrabble board. They have pretty much owned the Scripps National Spelling Bee in recent years. Three of the eight co-champions in 2019 came from Texas. Sohum Sukhatankar of Dallas dazzled with his winning word, pendeloque. FiniSh thiS Abhijay Kodali of Flower Mound spelled palama. And Rohan Raja of Dallas aced odylic. Sentence They followed in the footsteps of 2018 champion Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, who hoisted the trophy after spelling koinonia. THIS MeMoRIAL Nihar Janga of Austin shared the title in 2016 after spelling Gesellschaft. DAy, I HonoR ... The COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of the 2020 bee. The tell us how you would finish 2021 finals are scheduled for July 8. that sentence. email your short responses to letters@texas May 5 CoopPower.com or comment on our Facebook post. Include your co-op and town. below are some nAtionAl of the responses to our March AStronAut prompt: the song that got me through a year of pandemic is … andAy etymology dictionary cites If We Make It Through December 1880 as the earliest use of the by Merle Haggard. word “astronaut.” That’s when InOCenCIA MArtInez MAgIC vALLey eC english writer percy Greg coined M e r C e d e S it for a fictional spaceship. Texas Sun by Khruangbin and Leon bridges. MeLAnIe burrIS n u e C e S e C P O r t L A n d Still Not Dead by willie nelson. F d H e r M A n HAMILtOn COunty eC b I g vA L L e y We Shall Overcome by Pete Seeger. SAnJAy SHAH C O S e r v C A r r O L Lt O n This Little Light of Mine. Peggy HOwArd vICtOrIA eC v I C t O r I A Don’t Let Me Down by the beatles. Jerry CHAndLer PedernALeS eC CAnyOn LAKe to see more responses, read Currents online. AStrOnAut: deLPIxeL | SHutterStOCK.COM. LIbrAry: COurteSy LbJ PreSIdentIAL LIbrAry. CHeeSe: OvydybOretS | dreAMStIMe.COM. dAnCe HALL: dAve SHAFer 4 TEXAS COOP POWER MAy 2021 texASCOOPPOwer.COM “Motherhood is the greatest Contests and More on texAScooppower.com thing and the $500 recipe conteSt Cheese hardest thing.” FocuS on texAS photoS rust and decay —ricki lake recommended reAding Double Exposure (July 2018) revisits a couple’s pose at Cadillac ranch. lbJ Archives at 50 the LbJ Presidential Library at the university of texas at Austin turns 50 on May 22. It was the first presidential library to be located on a college campus and the first anywhere in texas. the First Five presidential libraries Opened June 30, 1941 Franklin d. roosevelt Hyde Park, new york July 6, 1957 harry S. truman Independence, Missouri May 1, 1962 dwight d. eisenhower Abilene, Kansas August 10, 1962 herbert hoover twin SiSterS west branch, Iowa dAnce hAll May 22, 1971 neAr blAnco lyndon b. Johnson Austin, texas Care To Dance? donated $262,520 to assist texAS dAnce hAll preServAtion 32 historic dance halls with expenses in 2020. Dance halls across the state were shut down for most of 2020, unable to hold dances, weddings, festivals and fundraisers be- cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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