Arkansas Electric Cooperative
Sandra Byrd is vice president of Public Affairs and Member Services for Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives.
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation is based in Little Rock, a generation and transmission cooperative providing power for more than six hundred thousand members of Arkansas' seventeen electric distribution cooperatives. The co-op is in a fast growing area too.
Situated within two regional transmission organizations, MISO and SPP, AECC was affected by Winter Storm Uri in February 2021. That placed an even greater emphasis by AECC on reliability and its baseload power plants.
PUF sat down with a vice president from this important cooperative, Sandra Byrd, to find out what that all means. Listen in on this conversation.
PUF's Steve Mitnick: What is your role at Arkansas Electric Cooperative?
Sandra Byrd: I'm the vice president of public affairs and member services and that spans a wide gamut. We have a communication function that provides communication, marketing, and PR services to the seventeen co-ops, as well as AECC.