Brownsville Public Utilities Board

Type: Government-owned
On the web: http://www.brownsville-pub.com
Employees: 482

This PUB has no beer. Brownsville Public Utilities Board (Brownsville PUB) is a municipally-owned utility company providing electric, water, and wastewater services to more than 50,000 residential and commercial customers in Brownsville, Texas. The utility's two water treatment plants have the capacity to provide 40 million gallons of treated water per day. In the 1960s Brownsville citizens narrowly defeated a bid by electrical provider Central Power & Light Co. to buy the Brownsville utility. Following this the city set up Brownsville PUB as a municipally owned utility, giving customers control over the management of their utility.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending September, 2008:
Sales: $209.0M

Officers:
Chairman: Alonzo A. (Al) Villarreal
CEO, General Manager, and Director: John S. Bruciak
COO and Assistant General Manager: Fernando Saenz

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board, or Brownsville PUB, is the main utility company in the city of Brownsville, Texas. It is the largest of three electric providers (in terms of local customers) in the city of Brownsville, as well as the largest water provider for the city.

Its electric division is currently the only city owned electric provider of any city in the Rio Grande Valley metropolitan area. It has operated since 1907 and currently owns three power plants and distributes power to approximately 1,300 miles of wires and 14 substations.

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• Brownsville Public Utilities Board

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