About us

Your hometown electric utility

Hopkinsville Electric System (HES) is a municipal not-for-profit corporation established by Kentucky statute and city ordinance. We’ve been proud to provide service to our communities for more than 80 years.

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Connecting and powering our communities to transform lives

As your hometown electric utility, we’ve never outgrown our commitment to you. Since we’re locally owned and operated, we all have a voice in how this utility serves the community. Together, we can make the best decisions about our energy future—and you can be certain that the employees of HES have an eye on the future, are conscientious and dedicated to providing high-quality service.

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HES & energynet

HES doesn’t generate electricity. All electricity distributed by HES is purchased from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) through a renewable 20-year contract. Currently, HES has some of the lowest electric rates among the 153 TVA power distributors in the western Kentucky region. In 1999, HES created energynet internet services to keep our community connected and competitive in a global economy. Serving both residential and business customers, energynet is proud of its reputation for providing quality service.

Employee Identification

For your safety and awareness, our meter readers, operations, and service location employees are required to wear uniforms with the HES insignia clearly printed on them, and our service trucks are visibly marked. These employees are sometimes required to perform work on customer property. This clear identifications is designed to assure customers these employees are there to specifically conduct HES business.

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Our history

Serving our communities since 1942

Throughout our combined history, HES and energynet have continually looked for ways to provide affordable, high-quality services to area residents and businesses. energynet will continue to seek new avenues to meet local needs and keep Caldwell, Christian, Hopkinsville, Logan, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd, and Trigg counties competitive in the global marketplace.

  • 1942

    Hopkinsville is established by Kentucky statute and city ordinance.

  • 1999

    HES connects substations with fiber optic cable and creates energynet to manage internet services.

  • 1999

    Business fiber optic internet services are offered to area businesses

  • 2000

    Residential dialup internet service offered to area residents

  • 2007

    Residential broadband internet service offered to Hopkinsville residents

  • 2008

    energynet builds data center for its equipment and offers colocation services to area businesses

  • 2012

    Business fiber optic internet service offered to Cadiz businesses

  • 2013

    Business fiber optic internet services offered to Oak Grove businesses

  • 2014

    Business fiber optic internet service offered to Elkton businesses

  • 2016

    First Hopkinsville neighborhoods offered residential fiber optic internet

  • 2022

    Hopkinsville Electric System celebrates its 80th year in service to our community.

Board of Directors

HES is under the leadership of its fourth General Manager, Jeff Hurd, P.E. The electric utility employs 53 people and is governed by a 5-member board appointed by the Mayor.

Board meeting schedule

The HES board meets the last Tuesday of each month at the HES administrative office at 1820 E. 9th Street unless scheduling conflicts require a change.

To confirm the date and time of a board meeting, call the HES office at (270) 887-4210.

TVA info

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) act. Created by congressional charter, the TVA act created a federally owned corporation charged with providing navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing and economic development of the Tennessee Valley. This area includes portions of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Today, TVA sells power to 153 individual local power companies, including Hopkinsville Electric System. To supply power to approximately 9 million people, TVA operates 29 hydro-electric dams, 5 coal-fired plants, 17 natural gas plants, 3 nuclear plants, 14 solar energy sites, 1 diesel energy site, and 1 pumped storage facility.

TVA serves as the regulator for HES. All pricing for electric services provided by HES must be approved by TVA. In addition, TVA prescribes many of the business practices that must be followed by HES. TVA has a number of business and residential energy efficiency programs that HES is able to offer to its customers to help them lower their electricity usage.

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