MANSFIELD, PA (Dec. 12, 2022) — Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative will be returning $500,000 in capital credits refunds to members and former members of the cooperative this month. The Tri-County board of directors voted at its October monthly meeting to approve the retirement of capital credits allocated to members’ accounts in 1990 and 2021. Current Tri-County members who received electric service from the cooperative in those retirement years will receive a credit on their December electric bills. Tri-County issues checks…

MANSFIELD, PA (Dec. 10, 2022) — Daniel Patton has been hired as the director of engineering for Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative. Patton brings more than 25 years of experience in the energy industry to the cooperative. He most recently served as transmission and distribution supervisor for New York State Electric & Gas in Elmira, N.Y., where he managed the electric line department and oversaw outage management and new construction activities. Prior to that, he worked for the Power & Gas…

TROY, PA (July 26, 2022) — Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative members unanimously elected three incumbents to the board of directors during the cooperative’s 2022 Annual Meeting held today at the Troy Fairgrounds. Tri-County members re-elected incumbent directors Valery J. Robbins of Coudersport, Alfred Calkins of Troy and Gerald A. “Arnie” Kriner of Liberty to represent Districts 2, 6 and 8, respectively, on the co-op board. All three ran unopposed in their re-election bids. More than 1,100 cooperative members registered for…

MANSFIELD, PA (July 1, 2022) — Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative and CoBank have teamed up to award $6,000 to the Northern Tier Camp Cadet program. A $3,000 donation from Tri-County, matched by a $3,000 donation from CoBank, one the cooperative’s lenders, will help offset costs of operating the summer camp, which is held at Mansfield University each June. “Thank you to Tri-County Electric for donating to Northern Tier Camp Cadet,” said trooper Lauren Lesher, community service officer for Pennsylvania State…