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February 27, 2023

March 17, 2023 7 – 10:30 a.m. @ Pioneer’s Piqua office, 344 West State Route 36, Piqua, Ohio Mark your calendar — it’s going to be your lucky day! Members of Pioneer are invited to stop in or swing by for a coffee, tea, lemonade, or hot chocolate on us! Drinks will be served by The Buckeye Barn. Look for their Pouring Happiness drink trailer in front of the Piqua office! Not in a hurry? Come in to say hello, make sure your contact information is up-to-date, tell us about your electric service, register for Annual Meeting, or ask us...

January 12, 2023

It’s that time again – Pioneer’s Annual Art Contest! This year’s theme is “Cooperative Principles.” The art contest is open to children K–8th grade. Categories: K–2, 3–5, 6–8 grades. Submissions should depict one of Pioneer’s seven cooperative principles. Artwork should be completed on an 11- x 14-inch or smaller sheet of white paper. Entries will be judged on creativity and overall artistic ability according to your age category. Winners will be announced at Pioneer’s Annual Meeting and published in our May issue of Ohio Cooperative Living magazine. Please include: name, grade, parent’s name(s), Pioneer account number, city, and phone number...

November 1, 2021

It’s that time again – Pioneer’s Annual Art Contest! This year’s theme is “Shining Community.” The art contest is open to children K-8th grade with the following categories: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 grades. Submissions should show what shines bright in your community – this could be your favorite person/place, a drawing of someone or something that makes you smile, or any other creative rendering. The artwork can be created on any size paper. Take a photo, or video if needed, of your entry and send it to us at member@PioneerEC.com and include “art contest” in the subject line. Make sure to...

October 28, 2020

Pioneer Electric Cooperative is celebrating 85 years as a not-for-profit, member-owned electric distribution utility. In the early to mid-1930s, rural residents all over the country were unable to obtain electric service for their homes and farms. It was very uncommon for investor-owned utility companies serving neighboring residential cities and towns to offer rural consumers electricity, because of the strong belief that they would not be profitable. In 1935, with the help of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Congress approved the passage and appropriation of a $100 million loan fund. Among the programs funded was electric service to rural areas....

July 2, 2020

Pioneer Electric is pleased to announce that southern Miami County’s Haas Substation became fully operational on June 30. The new 138 kV substation will improve outage reliability to the 729 consumers previously served by the 12 kV Lower Miami delivery point by dividing them between three feeders, which means an outage would affect a smaller number of members. The new substation will provide backfeeding capacity for another 484 members when East Casstown substation has a transmission outage or maintenance needs. Haas Substation was named after former Pioneer President and CEO Doug Haas, who also served as Pioneer’s manager of engineering...

June 5, 2020

On March 9, 16 linemen from all across Ohio, including Pioneer’s Leader Lineman John Holcomb, set out to electrify Tierra Blanca Sebol, a small Guatemalan village in the mountainous northern region of the country. Project Ohio, a collaborative effort between Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association International, previously electrified two other villages in Guatemala. This was the third trip for the project and the first year a Pioneer lineman participated. John set out to make the most of the trip. He and his wife spent nights and weekends on Google Earth, looking at the village’s territory...