Empowering homes and businesses across Northern Colorado for decades.
Like how our wires run through our service territory, so too does our concern for community flow through all our decisions – because being a co-op means we’ve been here for our members since our founding in 1939 till today and for tomorrow.
Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association, Inc. is founded by 600 members who paid $5 apiece for membership on November 2, 1939. An office is established in Severance, CO.
Our office is moved to 220 East Olive Street in Fort Collins, CO.
PVREA lineman George Jones goes national in an ad campaign for General Electric transformers.
PVREA builds a 69-kV transmission line to serve its mountain areas, such as Red Feather Lakes and Poudre Canyon.
PVREA retires the yellow logo with Willie Wiredhand and adopts a new logo with patriotic red, white, and blue colors.
Membership continues to grow.
PVREA moves its offices to 4809 S. College Avenue in Fort Collins, CO.
The ice storm on May 17, 1983 causes the most damage to PVREA so far. Over 900 poles are damaged with outages almost two weeks long.
PVREA celebrates 50 years in service to our members.
Membership continues to grow.
On September 11, 1995 PVREA breaks ground for a new office building, located east of I-25 off the Windsor exit, which is still the co-op headquarters today.
Membership continues to grow.
PVREA deploys the installation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), improving the co-op’s grid reliability and power restoration time.
Starting in June and burning over 98,000 acres, this fire damages 400 poles and 1,700 members lose power.
Abnormal rainfall and recent fire damage causes immense flooding, resulting in 2,600 members without power, damage to 150 poles and roughly 9 miles of line.
Membership continues to grow.
On May 28, our Board sets a long-term energy supply goal to provide 80% carbon-free energy to members by 2030.
As the largest wildfire in CO history, it burns over 208,000 acres, 43 miles of line, and causes over $4 million of damage to our system.
Alongside local, regional, and national partners, we test the waters for Microgrid and battery storage adoption with a pilot project in Red Feather Lakes, CO.
Membership continues to grow.
We will continue to carry out our mission of meeting and exceeding the evolving needs and expectations of our members and the communities we serve.