Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission oversight is necessary where the consumer served by the company and the shareholder benefiting from the company's profits are not necessarily one and the same. In a cooperative, the consumer and the shareholder are one and the same.
Electric cooperatives are guided by independent boards of directors elected from the membership who exercise local control over the cooperative and set rates.
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