Concho Valley Electric Cooperative

Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a nonprofit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in San Angelo, Texas. It was organized in 1940 to provide electric service in a predominantly rural area of West Texas. As a cooperative, it is structured around member-customers rather than conventional shareholder ownership, with its service role focused on maintaining a dependable distribution network for the communities and rural territories within its assigned area. The cooperative serves portions of ten Texas counties. Its territory generally surrounds San Angelo and extends through areas associated with the Concho River, placing the organization within the broader rural-electric-cooperative system that supplies power outside major urban utility markets. The available reference material identifies the organization primarily as an electric distributor and does not document a separate consumer-product portfolio, national retail activity, or operations outside Texas. Its physical network is substantial for a regional distribution cooperative. The reference description reports more than 4,300 miles of electric line and more than 14,200 meters. These figures indicate a geographically dispersed service footprint, in which the cooperative must connect relatively distant customers across rural and semi-rural terrain. Its principal offering is therefore electric service delivered through its distribution infrastructure, rather than a branded manufactured product. Publicly documented information in the supplied sources is limited. The sources establish the cooperative’s nonprofit rural-utility status, 1940 organization date, San Angelo headquarters, Texas service territory, and approximate network scale, but do not provide verified details about its leadership, generation assets, rate programs, financial performance, major construction projects, or recent corporate initiatives. Those areas should be supplemented with current regulatory filings or the cooperative’s official publications before being treated as part of a fuller corporate history.

Concho Valley Electric Cooperative was organized in 1940 as a rural electric cooperative serving the area around San Angelo and the Concho River in Texas. Its formation belongs to the expansion of cooperative electric service intended to bring reliable power distribution to rural communities that were less likely to be served by investor-owned utilities or municipal systems. The cooperative operates as a nonprofit, member-oriented electric utility. Rather than functioning as a conventional publicly traded company, it provides distribution service to the member-customers connected to its network. Its geographic remit covers portions of ten Texas counties, creating a service territory that is regional but dispersed. San Angelo serves as the cooperative’s headquarters and as a central reference point for its operations. The organization’s infrastructure has grown into a large rural distribution system. The available reference material reports more than 4,300 miles of line and over 14,200 meters. Those figures describe the scale of the network used to deliver electricity to homes, farms, businesses, and other customers across the cooperative’s territory. They also reflect the operational demands of serving a broad rural area, where line length and geographic coverage can be substantial relative to the number of connected meters. The supplied sources do not document specific leadership changes, mergers, acquisitions, generation projects, rate decisions, emergency events, or named public campaigns. They also do not establish whether the cooperative owns generation facilities or purchases all or part of its electricity from other suppliers. Accordingly, the documented history is best understood as a concise institutional profile: a Texas rural electric cooperative organized in 1940, headquartered in San Angelo, and responsible for a sizable distribution network serving portions of ten counties. Additional historical detail requires authoritative cooperative records, state regulatory material, or current official publications.

• 1940

  Cooperative organized

  [1]Concho Valley Electric Cooperativeen.wikipedia.org

  Concho Valley Electric Cooperative was organized as a nonprofit rural electric utility cooperative in Texas.

A nonprofit, member-owned rural electric distribution cooperative serving the Concho Valley and surrounding Texas communities.

• Utility service

  Electric distribution service

  The cooperative’s principal offering is electric service delivered to member-customers through its rural distribution network. The documented territory includes portions of ten Texas counties, generally around San Angelo and the Concho River. The service is supported by more than 4,300 miles of line and more than 14,200 meters, according to the cited reference material.

1. 1Concho Valley Electric Cooperativeen.wikipedia.org