Associated Electric Cooperative

Associated Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, member-led, not-for-profit electric cooperative that generates electricity for more than 2.1 million member-consumers across rural Missouri, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Iowa. It provides a wholesale power supply for six transmission cooperative member-owners serving 51 distribution cooperatives in the Midwest, and describes a balanced generation portfolio of coal, natural gas, liquid fuel, wind and hydropower. Formed in 1961 by six generation and transmission cooperatives, it is governed by a member-directed board of directors and supported by an executive team based at its Springfield, Missouri, headquarters.

Associated Electric Cooperative was formed in 1961 by six generation and transmission cooperatives. Its major generation facilities, built primarily during the 1960s and 1970s, were financed with help from the Rural Electrification Administration (REA), which had been created in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and given funding and powers by Congress a year later to promote rural electrification through low-cost loans. The cooperative states that the need for affordable electricity in the rural Midwest sparked its founding in 1961, and that it has grown under the leadership of its member-directed board and management into one of the nation's largest G&T electric cooperatives.

Member-owned, member-led, not-for-profit electric cooperative focused on a reliable, affordable and responsible wholesale power supply.

• Wholesale power supply

  Reliable, affordable wholesale power supply for six transmission cooperative member-owners serving 51 distribution cooperatives.

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