Our History
In the early 1930s America was
facing a moment of crisis.
A great
depression had rocked the nation to
the threshold of economic disaster.
Rural communities were particularly
hurt, and north Mississippi was
impoverished with very little
economic and social advancement in
sight.
One major problem faced by rural
Mississippians was the lack of
electricity. Less than one percent
of farms here had electric power.
The others did without with little
hope that investor-owned, for
profit, power companies would ever
provide service. In 1933, the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was
established due to the efforts of
President Roosevelt.
The TVA had as its mission the
development of the natural resources
of the Tennessee Valley, the
greatest of which was power. TVA
pledged to generate electric power
and sell it at a reasonable cost to
municipal-owned and
cooperatively-owned power
distributors. In 1936, President
Roosevelt signed the Rural
Electrification Act (REA), which was
set up as a lending agency of the
federal government to provided
capital to finance electric
generating plants, transmission
lines and distribution lines in
rural areas.
In 1936, local rural leaders were
still faced with the tremendous
responsibility of organizing
associations to borrow necessary
funds to build the distribution
systems that were needed and in 1937
Central Electric Power Association
was formed. Now, over decades later,
Central EPA continues to meet the
needs of its member-owners and is
ready to usher in a new era of
electric utilities as the industry
prepares for the future. With the
same hard work and commitment to low
rates, superior service standards
and to the communities that we
serve, Central EPA will continue to
make a difference in Central
Mississippi.
Our Locations
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Headquarters-Carthage
District |
Philadelphia District |
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107 East Main St, Carthage
PO Box 477
Carthage, Mississippi
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1045 Holland Ave, Philadelphia
PO Box 120
Philadelphia, Mississippi |
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Sandhill District |
Sebastopol District |
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727 Sandhill Road, Brandon
PO Box 19
Sandhill, MS 39161 |
16387 Hwy 21 South
PO Box 69
Sebastopol, MS 39359 |
Our Service Area
Our General Manager
Paul D. Long
General Manager
Our Board
of Directors
Joe Sanders,
Jimmy Holloway, Don Howington, Pettey Leach, Ray Britt
Danny
Thornton, Max Loper, David Boyd,
Phillip Crosby, Frank Moore
Our Key
People
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Director of
Operations |
Buck Gilmer |
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Director of
Engineering |
Brian Long |
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Director of
Maintenance & Right-of-Way |
Mike Stewart |
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Director of Human
Resources |
Amy
Shepard |
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District Manager -
Philadelphia |
Danny Burnett |
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District Manager -
Rankin |
Mike
Stubbs |
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District Manager -
Sebastopol |
Steve Bryan |
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Director of Economic
Development |
Aaron Akers |
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Director of Customer
Accounts & Billing |
Richard Wilson |
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Office Manager |
Fatie Horn |
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Safety Coordinator |
Thomas Griffin |
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Energy Use Advisor |
Foch Dickens |
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Director of
Communications & Special
Projects |
Brian Gomillion |
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Dispatch & Mapping |
Dale Scott |
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Purchasing Agent |
Michael Brooks |
