membership corporation type cooperative industry electric utility founded 1938 headquarters jefferson georgia usa key people ernest a. chip jakins president & ceo products electricity number of employees 453 website http www.jacksonemc.com jackson electric membership corporation is one of 39 not for profit membership owned electric cooperatives located in the u.s. state of georgia with service in the north east metropolitan atlanta area . 1 power is supplied by constellation energy and oglethorpe power corporation which supplies generation capacity to most all emcs in georgia with the exception of a few supplied by the tennessee valley authority . contents 1 history 2 service area 3 references 4 external links history edit jackson emc was first chartered in 1938 to serve electricity to rural areas of north east georgia where investor owned and municipal utilities did not serve . jackson emc was organized as a result of president franklin d. roosevelt s rural electrification administration rea as part of the new deal programs . president roosevelt saw the need for rural electrification when traveling through depression era georgia on trips to the little white house in warm springs . cost of membership in the cooperative was set at 5.00 usd in 1938 and has not changed to the present day . service area edit electric service is provided to parts of 10 counties jackson gwinnett hall clarke madison barrow banks lumpkin oglethorpe franklin references edit jackson emc profile on answers.com 2010 retrieved 2010 06 16 external links edit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jackson electric membership corporation & oldid 661846275 categories cooperatives in the united stateselectric cooperatives of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 may 2015 at 14 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view