Keith Barnette

Georgia Electric Membership Corp. operates as a governing body for electric cooperatives. Its association enables Georgia's electric membership corporations to pool its resources to gain strength and efficiency on issues common to the EMCs. The firm is a not-for-profit 501 (C)(6), member-owned organization controlled by a board of directors elected from the member cooperatives and corporations. The company was founded on December 16, 1940 and is headquartered in Tucker, GA.

Cooperative Response Center, Inc. provides telephone answering services. It provides verbal prompts, custom messages and greetings to callers and interfaces with customer data. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, MN.

Oglethorpe Power Corp. operates as a non-profit organization which engages in the provision of wholesale electric power services. It also offers wholesale electric power to retail electric distribution cooperative members. The company was founded on August 8, 1974 and is headquartered in Tucker, GA.

Middle Georgia Electric Membership Corp. generates electricity power. The non-profit company is based in Vienna, GA. The company was founded in 1940. The CEO is Randy Crenshaw.

Green Power Electric Membership Corp. is a non-profit cooperative founded in 2001 to support Georgia's electric cooperatives in their search for renewable resources. The private company is based in Tucker, GA and has a hydroelectric facility at Tallassee Shoals near Athens, GA. The company sources renewable energy and provides education programs to help member-consumers learn about utilizing renewable energy. The facility burns forestry by-products to generate electricity and uses an electrostatic precipitator to remove particulate matter from the boiler exhaust. The company also offers a standards-based curriculum called SPARK for middle and high school students to provide a unique, hands-on learning experience. The program has more than 200 participating schools, trained approximately 650 teachers, and reached more than 10,000 students across Georgia.