Pennsylvania Rural Electric Assocication (PREA)

Penn lines magazine - publication and distribution of penn lines magazine to consumers of 12 member Rural Electric cooperatives. This included over 2 million issues distributed for the entire year, or almost 169,000 per month. Penn lines focuses on Rural issues, economic and community development, health and education concerns, better and more efficient uses of electricity, as well as human interest profiles.

Prea member services include - legal, federal/state legislative and regulatory representation, and communications with members, employees and directors.

Job training and safety - the job training & safety (jt&s) team provides compliance and safety education for its 14 member cooperatives. In 2023, it accomplished this through 146 days of safety meetings conducted by jt&s staff throughout the year. The meetings included updated osha compliance training and required regulatory safety training. Safety meetings vary from 2 to 9 meetings per cooperative, depending on the size and requests from each cooperative. Jt&s also conducted 15 training schools that ranged from 3 days to 2 weeks in length.