What companies generate and transmit the electric power distributed by Kenergy?
A. Big Rivers Electric Corporation (BREC) in Henderson, KY is the transmission cooperative owned by Kenergy, Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation in Paducah, KY and Meade County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation in Brandenburg, KY. Through a 25-year agreement with BREC, Henderson-based Western Kentucky Energy (WKE) leases and operates the BREC-owned power generation plants from which most of the power distributed by Kenergy is produced. WKE is a subsidiary of LG&E Energy, which is owned by PowerGen. Kenergy also distributes electricity supplied by LG&E Marketing, Inc., SIGECO and Cinergy. Q. What are the basic differences among electric utilities? A. The three types of utilities are: cooperatives, investor-owned and municipal. An investor-owned utility (IOU) is owned by stockholders who may or may not be customers and who may or may not live in the utility’s service territory. The IOU is a for-profit company. Municipal systems are usually owned by a city, state or federal governmen
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