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- 1940 Rural residents file Articles of Association with State of Oregon for Central Electric Cooperative, Inc.; elect 9 charter members of board of directors; capitalize the company with $244,000 loan from Rural Electrification Administration.
- 1941 Board Chairman Carl H. Baker throws switch at Deschutes Junction Substation, energizing 11 Redmond area farms.
- 1949 To help finance lines, poles, and transformer infrastructure, CEC implements Capital Credits plan, still in effect today.
- 1956 Election of board of directors changed from “at large” selection to representation based on geographic districts representative of communities served.
- 1962 Oregon Public Utility Commission approves Central Electric service territory boundaries, resolving differences over exclusivity with Pacific Power & Light.
- 1977 Redmond Chamber of Commerce gives Community Improvement Award to CEC for co-op’s new Redmond headquarters campus.
- 1978 CEC initiates energy conservation program, later expanded to Home Energy Efficiency Program in 1982, which is still in effect today.
- 1986 Capital Credits repaid to members exceeds $1 million.
- 1995 CEC and 11 other cooperative members of Power Resources Cooperative build and operate 2.5-megawatt Coffin Butte landfill gas-to-electricity renewable energy facility; expanded in 2007 to 5.66 megawatts.
- 2001 CEC achieves a 60-year record low for power outage time per member: 18 minutes, 31 seconds per member.
- 2009 CEC introduces its 7,200-volt safety trailer, giving electrical safety demonstrations at schools and fairs.
- 2012 Completed installation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure across CEC system.
- 2016 Completed Oregon’s largest community solar project located at Bend Service Center.
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