Where We Serve

We proudly serve homes, businesses, and communities within our service area, ensuring reliable and affordable electricity for all members.

Pennsylvania’s territorial law for electric utilities is primarily governed by Title 66 of the Pennsylvania Statutes – Public Utilities, and specific provisions for service boundaries and competition are found in Title 15, Chapter 73, Section 54 and Title 66, Chapter 28. This law ensures that service areas are clearly defined and prevents overlapping service without regulatory approval. Utilities must follow territorial boundaries.

Pennsylvania’s territorial law for electric utilities combines territorial boundary certification with a competitive market framework and broad regulatory enforcement powers to balance consumer choice, service reliability, and market competition.

Our Service Area

Adams Electric serves 34,500 homes, farms and businesses in south-central Pennsylvania. The cooperative has offices in Gettysburg, Shippensburg, and York. Adams Electric serves members in the counties listed below.

Adams Electric is intermingled with other investor-owned utilities (mainly Met-Ed and Penelec) in the distribution of electricity in Adams, and parts of lower Cumberland, upper Franklin and western and southern York counties. There are also several accounts in Perry County. In Pennsylvania, a person’s electric distribution utility is determined by where he or she decides to reside or run a business. New houses and businesses are served by the nearest utility, based on Pa. Territorial Law, be that Adams Electric or a neighboring investor-owned utility. Because of this, the co-op can end up serving one side of a street or part of a housing development while Met-Ed or Penelec can serve on the other side of the street or the rest of a housing development.

While our service area may look like "Swiss cheese," we are bound by the laws of the Commonwealth in where we serve and how new memberships can be established.

Adams County

Abbottstown, Arendtsville, Bonneauville, Carroll Valley and Littlestown boroughs, plus Berwick, Butler, Conewago, Cumberland, Franklin, Freedom, Germany, Hamilton, Hamiltonban, Highland, Huntingdon, Latimore, Liberty, Menallen, Mt. Joy, Mt. Pleasant, Oxford, Reading, Straban, Tyrone and Union townships.

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