Norris R. Fowler

Broad River Electric Cooperative is one of 20 member-owned electric co-ops in South Carolina. From its headquarters in Gaffney, SC, it serves Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union, and Newberry counties in South Carolina and portions of Cleveland, Polk, and Rutherford counties in North Carolina. Founded in 1940 to meet the needs of a small number of rural residents who needed electric service, it now has more than 20,000 business and residential Member-Owners and 2,348 miles of power line.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is a non-profit organization that provides retail electric services. It organizes annual meetings of cooperative and rural leaders and consumers and also holds expositions of products and equipment required in operation of electric utilities. The company was founded in 1942 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.