Pemiscot-Dunklin Electric Cooperative

We are extremely excited to announce that we are beginning the process of connecting customers in our Avon Knight Service Area. The green area in the image east... of the railroad tracks is immediately ready and the red area west of the tracks will be ready within about 3 weeks. We will begin the process of installing drops in both areas, however, so that we can clear the demand backlog as quickly and efficiently as possible. Please continue to be patient. This is brand new service and requires an enormous amount of underground work. We will be working diligently to get everyone connected. An email will be sent to the addresses you pre-registered with asking for an e-signature on our Terms of Service documents. Once you e-sign those and submit them, you will be placed in the queue for installation. If you pre-registered and do not receive an email by Tuesday December 22, please call the office at 573-757-6641 and ask for the fiber department. Someone will be able to assist you. We are always excited to bring service to a new area and this is not exception. We hope you are as excited about #ruralbroadband as we are! See more

We understand that some consumers have not received their December bills in the mail. As a result, we are extending the December due date without payment penalty until December 23, 2020 until 5 pm when our offices will close for Christmas. We apologize for any inconvenience with mail delivery and would like to offer e-bill service in place of or in addition to paper bills for any consumer who might wish to sign up. Contact us at 573-757-6641 to register for e-bill or discuss your bill with member services. We wish all our consumers a Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving Free Preview. For our Pemiscot Dunklin Fiber TV customers, we are pleased to announce a free-preview weekend for HBO and Cinemax. The free preview ...is going on from November 25th - November 30th. We will also be doubling our 100MB customers speeds to 200 over the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Thanksgiving and thank you...Enjoy! See more

Updating our previous post which I have included here...We were notified that our customers DVR firmware upgrades will occur on the evening of November 30th. **...Original Post** We have previously sent out the following email to our DVR customers, but we would like to post the information here as well so that as many customers as possible are aware of the upgrade. This only applies to customers with both TV service AND Whole-home DVR service. Our Television partner, Co-Mo Connect is working with a new company to be able to offer streaming TV service to our customers. This upgrade will allow us to offer a streaming "app" to our customers with iOS or Android devices on which you will be able to watch our TV service on-the-go. DVR service will be included in the cloud. We think this will be revolutionary and we are excited to be able to offer this service. One downside to the new upgraded platform is that customers DVR recordings and schedules will be deleted entirely during the firmware upgrade process. This will occur at midnight on Thursday, October 1st, 2020. We realize this is a rather large inconvenience. We encourage all DVR customers to get caught up on your recorded content and take notes of your scheduled recordings so that you can reschedule those after the upgrade is complete. We feel like the upgrade in service and the new offering will far outweigh the burden of losing recordings. Thank you for your patience and we appreciate you very much! Pemiscot Dunklin Fiber

A quick update for our membership visiting the Cooperative. Our lobby is currently open during business hours - M-F, 8am-5pm. To ensure the safety of our employees and members, there is a mask mandate in effect. Please wear a mask to protect yourself as well as those you may come into contact with. Thank you!

One of the last two of our fiber huts being placed at our Avon Knight substation.

It has been a long road, but the last two of our fiber huts have been placed over the last two days. That brings our total network points of presence to 13. We ...still have a lot of work to do to get everything connected in these buildings, as well as outside construction, but we are well on our way to completing our initial build out next year. It seems like yesterday that we started this project, but it has been one of the most rewarding projects most of us have worked on. We really look forward to the day that we can say we have reached 100% of our membership! See more

Channel 9 on our TV system, KAIT (8) ABC out of Jonesboro is currently down due to an antenna inspection. They killed to power to ensure safety of the tower climbers. They advise they expect the outage to last between 1 and 3 hours.

"Missouri has got it going on. Their crews are the best I've had and I appreciate every one of them." -Bobby "Bob Cat" Minion, Crew Chief at @BeauregardElectric... Mutual Assistance is one of the finest examples there is of Cooperative Principle #6: Cooperation Among Cooperatives, and Missouri's Electric Cooperatives are proud to be part of restoration efforts following #HurricaneLaura. Thank you for your support: Barry Electric Cooperative, Inc. Black River Electric Cooperative Boone Electric Cooperative Callaway Electric Cooperative Central Missouri Electric Cooperative, Inc. Co-Mo Electric Cooperative Consolidated Electric Cooperative - Missouri Crawford Electric Cooperative Gascosage Electric Cooperative Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. Laclede Electric Cooperative Lewis County REC Macon Electric Cooperative New-Mac Electric Cooperative Osage Valley Electric Cooperative Ozark Electric Cooperative Pemiscot DunklinElectric Cooperative Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative Sac Osage Electric Cooperative SEMO Electric Cooperative Three Rivers Electric Cooperative Tri-County Electric Cooperative United Electric Cooperative, Inc. West Central Electric Cooperative #CooperationAmongCooperatives #PowerOn

Linemen from Missouri’s electric cooperatives working to assist storm-ravaged Louisiana will get a well-earned break when fresh help arrives Wednesday, Sept. 9.... On Aug. 29, 128 linemen from Missouri’s electric cooperatives left home to help restore power at Beauregard Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BECi) in the wake of Hurricane Laura. The crews are making progress, says Rob Land, who is in charge of the mutual assistance program at the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives. They have a total of 640 cooperative linemen working. Including contractors, there are 1,180 people working to restore power. Barry Electric Cooperative, Inc. Black River Electric Cooperative Boone Electric Cooperative Callaway Electric Cooperative Central Missouri Electric Cooperative, Inc. Co-Mo Electric Cooperative Consolidated Electric Cooperative - Missouri Crawford Electric Cooperative Gascosage Electric Cooperative Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. Laclede Electric Cooperative Lewis County REC Macon Electric Cooperative New-Mac Electric Cooperative Osage Valley Electric Cooperative Ozark Electric Cooperative Pemiscot DunklinElectric Cooperative Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative Sac Osage Electric Cooperative SEMO Electric Cooperative Three Rivers Electric Cooperative Tri-County Electric Cooperative MO United Electric Cooperative, Inc. West Central Electric Cooperative #CooperationAmongCooperatives #PowerOn

Thanks to all of the crews from across Missouri for providing mutual aid to Beauregard Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BECi) after #HurricaneLaura. Restoration effo...rts are underway! Thank you for your support: Barry Electric Cooperative, Inc. Black River Electric Cooperative Boone Electric Cooperative Callaway Electric Cooperative Central Missouri Electric Cooperative, Inc. Co-Mo Electric Cooperative Consolidated Electric Cooperative - Missouri Crawford Electric Cooperative Gascosage Electric Cooperative Howell-Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. Laclede Electric Cooperative Lewis County REC Macon Electric Cooperative New-Mac Electric Cooperative Osage Valley Electric Cooperative Ozark Electric Cooperative Pemiscot DunklinElectric Cooperative Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative Sac Osage Electric Cooperative SEMO Electric Cooperative Three Rivers Electric Cooperative Tri-County Electric Cooperative MO United Electric Cooperative, Inc. West Central Electric Cooperative #CooperationAmongCooperatives #PowerOn

We are excited to announce that our Denton service area is now active and in service! The area of service is shown on the attached map and stretches from the fl...oodways on 164 (near Rives) over to Steele east and west and from Gobler down to the state line north and south. We will be reaching out to those that we have already installed drops for to schedule home installations. Please be patient as we work through these. If you are interested in service, but have not pre-registered, please visit https://www.pdfiber.com to do so. We still have more work to do to reach the remainder of our membership, but please rest assured that we are moving as quickly as possible. Thank you! See more

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Missouri communities deserve to thrive. Rural communities have suffered from a lack of reliable, high-speed internet availability for long enough. Today, we hav...e the opportunity to change that. The Rural Broadband Acceleration Act will expedite the availability of federal broadband funding and allow those planning to make high-speed broadband service available to thousands of rural communities to quickly start construction. Share this post and visit https://bit.ly/GORuralBroadbandNOW to urge Senators Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley to support S.4201 to expedite broadband funding. #RuralBroadbandNOW #BridgetheDigitalDivide Tag and mention your senators Senator Roy Blunt and Senator Josh Hawley See more

PDEC Annual Meeting drawing winners - For our 82nd annual meeting, we drew 10 names per hour for a total of 60 - $50 August bill credits. At the end of the meeting, all names were put back into the pot and 1 grand prize of (up to) a $300 August bill credit was drawn. If you are a winner, there is nothing you need to do...the credit will be applied to your August electric bill. The winners are listed as follows: (60) $50 bill credits:... Gary Swindle Sue Scott Kay Karnes L Hunter Steve Worrell Lanny Watson Johnny Scott Billy Taylor Kevin Barnes James Britton WH Tackeberry Donald Pelts Dennis Bridges Daniel Burlison Bobby Joe Smith Crystal Williams Travis Galyean James Stone David Hanners Harry Blankenship Joe Stewart Max Morgan Danny Carter Amber Brents Rebecca Keys Jarrad Keating Peggy Huckabee St Johns Miss Church Sarah Layne JIm Pemberton Candace Patterson John Swims Jimmie Lee Robert Satterfield Matthew Smith Teresa Mayberry Delan Young Pamela Webb Randal Gibson Dollie Guyton Ellis Crossno Paul Groff Joe Haubold Jackie Callis Bobby Smith Bery Rowell Mary Rivero Dennis Gorman Curt Blansett Jeff Patterson Birdie Stewart Wane Johnson Dennis Chailland Mark Beights Kenneth Gibson Junior Duffel John Allgood Vicki Masterson Jacqueline Morris Scotty Morgan GRAND PRIZE WINNER (up to) $300 August bill credit Felicia Dogan

We would like to thank everyone who came out to participate in our 82nd annual meeting and Directors Elections. The election results were as follows: District One: Keith Jones: 753 - * Elected Bill Johns: 225... District Two: William "Bub" Foresythe: 314 Greg Harris: 664 - * Elected District Three: Noble Nelson: 263 Greg Gibson: 486 - * Elected Joe Lane: 229 We would like to congratulate Keith Jones and Greg Gibson on their re-election as well as Greg Harris on being newly elected. We would like to recognize William "Bub" Foresythe for his years of service as a PDEC Director. Finally, we would like to congratulate Bill Johns, Noble Nelson and Joe Lane for their campaigns and recognize them for participating in the cooperative democratic process....Thank you!

https://youtu.be/EDBnpKMc3g4 PDEC 82nd Annual Business Meeting livestream.

Be sure to come see us at the Kennett Fairgrounds for our 82nd Annual Meeting! Drive through voting from 7am until 1pm.