Greenville kept its electric utility in local hands

By the late 1800s, Greenville had bought its own water plant and electric system. That was an early step for a growing rail and cotton town. The city still owns the electric utility now known as GEUS.

Greenville calls GEUS the oldest city-owned power system in Texas. That makes a modern electric bill part of a long local story. Public power here is not just a company name. It is a civic choice that the city carried from the first electric lights into the present.