Operating from Johnson City, TX, Pedernales Electric Co-operative (PEC) is the largest member co-operative utility in the US with more than 230,000 electric customers. It was one of the seven utilities that signed contracts with the Distribution Control Systems, Inc in 2001, for the Power Line Carrier (PLC) automated meter reading, with the two-way automatic meter reading AMR) [1]. PEC has also developed SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) teams to monitor the distribution system 24/7 regardless of any weather-related challenges.
