For more than 60 years, electric cooperatives have played a pivotal role in providing a sound energy infrastructure in the communities they serve. Today co-op transmission and distribution systems make up a national network of utilities that covers three quarters on the nation’s landmass. The 39 million consumers of the nation’s 930 electric cooperative utilities own assets worth $86 billion. Electric cooperatives continue to improve and upgrade their systems to support a phenomenal national growth rate of nearly three percent. In their focus to provide reliable, safe and affordable power to their member-owners, electric cooperatives must pay close attention to issues that affect both the physical and financial infrastructure that they have worked so hard to build and maintain.

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