Governance and Management

Citizens' Electric Company is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors that is elected annually by the majority shareholder, C&T Enterprises, Inc. The Directors meet on a regular basis for utility updates and to make decisions pertaining company policies and procedures, carefully balancing the interests of the shareholders and rate payers to ensure safe and reliable electric service at reasonable cost.

Day to day operations are managed by a local management team with extensive utility experience. Citizens' employees provide the routine services and operations including line construction and maintenance, administrative functions and clerical obligations. Complementing Citizens's staff is a support team from C&T that provides specialty resources including Information Technology, Financial Services, Key Accounts, Call Center operations, Human Resources and Communications support.

Citizens' Electric is almost wholly owned by C&T which is an unregulated holding company and a Pennsylvania corporation with its principal office in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.  C&T is a jointly-owned subsidiary of Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative (Wysox, PA) and Tri-County Rural Electric Cooperative (Mansfield, PA) , which are both member-owned electric cooperatives incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania.  Tri-County and Claverack are the sole shareholders of C&T, each owning 50%. 

C&T also owns Wellsboro Electric Company and Valley Energy.  Wellsboro is an electric distribution company serving 6,000 customers in Tioga county and Valley Energy is a natural gas distribution company serving 7,000 customers in Sayre, Athens, Towanda and Monroeton, Pennsylvania. All together, the C&T family comprises approximately 180 employees dedicated to providing exceptional utility service to 58,000 electric and natural gas consumers.