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Balancing Act Electric cooperative set rates based on people, not profit

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December 5, 2025

How Backfeeding Capabilities Keep Your Power Reliable

Have you ever wondered how your electric cooperative keeps your lights on during maintenance work, or how quickly they restore power during an outage? One of the ways we do this is through a process called backfeeding. While it might sound technical, it’s a simple and effective way to shorten how long you’re without power. Backfeeding is like having a backup route for electricity. Imagine your usual road to work is closed for repairs. Instead of staying home, you take a detour on another road to get to your destination. Backfeeding works the same way, but instead of cars, it...

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November 12, 2025

Balancing Act – Electric Cooperative Set Rates Based on People, Not Profit

By: Jeff McCallister Last February, WKYC-TV in Cincinnati had a warning for its viewers: “Get ready, Ohio: Your energy bill will be higher this summer.” In April, an AEP Ohio official told WBNS-TV in Columbus that customers should expect their bills to jump by an average of $27 beginning in June. “Electricity price surge,” screamed a headline on Cleveland.com in late July, over a story that said Ohioans were seeing increases that averaged 10% to 15%. The story explained that a record-breaking auction in the wholesale electricity market last year had set higher prices for future supply, and that was...

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We Are Powering Your Communities

Pioneer Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc., is a not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric distribution utility headquartered in Piqua, Ohio. We also have a district facility in Urbana, Ohio, providing quicker response times during outage situations and continued operations in case of a disaster.


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Hear From Our Members

Everything we do revolves around you – our community. Pioneer brings the focus to our local communities and our neighbors. That is the cooperative difference.

Our power went out at 4:40am May 3rd. I called and reported. The crew was here within a half hour. Fixed a part on our transformer and electricity was restored quickly! We appreciated the two gentleman that asked permission first… to drive through our yard. It was a damp/ rainy morning. Our electric came on… they were pulling out … total time from our call in… about 90 minutes! Great Job! Thank you for your service and professionalism!

Monti & Penny
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I personally have never had issues with Pioneer and have used them for 6 years. I’m actually thankful for them after hearing the horror stories about AES and how long it takes power to be restored and their prices. Anytime our electric goes out, it is restored quickly. I think the longest we’ve been without power is maybe 3 hours. The pricing has gone up a little over the years but nothing significant to complain about.

Nicole Giles
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Power is back - Thanks for your always reliable, quick service!

John
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Thank you..we love Pioneer..you are a blessing

Greg
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Whenever I say that I love my electric company people either look at me like am crazy, or say, "You must have Pioneer."

Denise
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Thank you for always taking great care of your customers, stay safe!

Tammy
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Pioneer Electric Cooperative is great. So thankful that we rarely lose power, but when we do it’s fixed quickly

Jason
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Love Pioneer Electric! They are the BEST!!

Jackie
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I would like to show our appreciation for keeping our power on, on a day when 'everyone else' didn't have power. Thank you!

Steven
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I have always had faith in Pioneer over the past 40 years, but we just keep getting better.

Jeff
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Cable, Ohio

I am very happy with the service. Outages are almost non-existent. If there is an outage, it usually only lasts a matter of minutes. That is very important during inclement weather.

Pioneer Member
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