We are the association, recognized under section 501(c) (6) of the Internal Revenue Code, consisting of the 35 municipalities—all Boroughs—in Pennsylvania who are in the public power business. We are a diversified and unique group of small and large municipalities who each buy power at a wholesale rate from an outside generator/distributor and then provide power at a retail rate to the residential, commercial, and industrial customers in our municipalities. PMEA consists of Municipal Members (identified in our by-laws as Regular Members) and Associate Members, who are companies who are also businesses to assist and provide services to municipal power companies. Our mission, as defined in our by-laws, is (1) to promote cooperation between, and the betterment of municipal corporations, state agencies and political subdivisions, other public or quasi-public local, state and Federal corporations, bodies and agencies, cooperative associations, non-profit corporations and similar organizations, domestic or foreign, that own, operate, or control electric generation, transmission or distribution facilities (hereafter "Public Power Systems")