Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.
Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. is owned by and provides wholesale power to six regional and 51 local electric cooperative systems in Missouri, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Iowa that serve more than 850,000 customers.

Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. has many strengths: tremendous generation and transmission assets; a strong balance sheet; and a dedicated, talented workforce. Its core strength though continues to be member governance and involvement.

Associated's 12 board members, elected to serve and represent Associated's six owner generation and transmission cooperatives, are actively engaged and involved in developing the cooperative's direction.

Associated and its member systems are tied together in a unique, three-tiered system of generation, transmission and distribution cooperatives. Each tier is committed to the others through all-requirements contracts. These contracts ensure that Associated will provide a wholesale power supply to meet members' needs, and that member systems will buy all their power supply from Associated. These reciprocal obligations produce one of the best electric cooperative organizations in the nation.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is the national service organization dedicated to representing the national interests of cooperative electric utilities and the consumers they serve. The NRECA Board of Directors oversees the association’s activities and consists of 47 members, one from each state in which there is an electric distribution cooperative. The chief spokesman for the nation’s electric cooperatives is NRECA Chief Executive Officer Glenn English.

Founded in 1942, NRECA was organized specifically to overcome World War II shortages of electric construction materials, to obtain insurance coverage for newly constructed rural electric cooperatives, and to mitigate wholesale power problems. Since those early days, NRECA has been an advocate for consumer-owned cooperatives on energy and operational issues as well as rural community and economic development.

NRECA’s more than 900 member cooperatives serve 40 million people in 47 states. Most of the 864 distribution systems are consumer-owned cooperatives; some are public power districts. NRECA membership includes other organizations formed by these local utilities: generation and transmission cooperatives for power supply, statewide and regional trade and service associations, supply and manufacturing cooperatives, data processing cooperatives and employee credit unions. Associate membership is open to equipment manufacturers and distributors, wholesalers, consultants and other entities that do business with members of the electric cooperative network.

The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives
The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives is a statewide service organization for Missouri’s 47 electric cooperatives. Organized in 1937 and headquartered in Jefferson City, AMEC represents the interest of the state’s electric co-ops and their members at the state capital and provides other needed services to Missouri’s member-owned, not-for-profit electric providers.
In addition to legislative activities AMEC provides job training to electric co-op employees, assists in marketing efforts and produces the award-winning monthly statewide publication Rural Missouri among other activities.

Rural Missouri Online Magazine
Rural Missouri is the statewide publication of the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives. Each month Rural Missouri brings entertaining features and informative articles to more than 400,000 members of Missouri's electric co-ops. Our pages are filled with fascinating people and businesses as well as interesting places to visit. We'll share our state's vast history and provide glimpses into the future. We are also the first source of news about the cooperative electric utility industry in Missouri and provide vital information to co-op members either through our own articles or in the local pages that many co-ops include with Rural Missouri.

Touchstone Energy Cooperatives
The Touchstone Energy Cooperatives brand represents a nationwide alliance made of more than 660 local, consumer-owned electric cooperatives in 46 states. Touchstone Energy co-ops collectively deliver power and energy solutions to more than 30 million members every day. Electric cooperatives distribute power for 75 percent of the U.S. land mass over 2.4 million miles of power lines.

Electric cooperatives were established to provide electricity to rural America, and now make up the largest electric utility network in the nation. Touchstone Energy is the national brand identity for that network.

Did you know Electric Cooperatives...

* Are located in 80% of the nation’s counties
* Are the largest electric utility network in the nation
* Total more than 930 local systems in 47 states
* Have 40 million member-owners
* Distribute power over 2.4 million miles of line
* Serve 75% of the U.S. land mass
* Own $97 billion in generation, transmission, and distribution assets

What Makes Our Cooperatives Different

Touchstone Energy co-ops are owned by the members they serve and are committed to providing reliable electricity at the lowest price possible. In short, co-ops “look out” for the members they serve.

Touchstone Energy co-ops provide high standards of service according to their four core values: integrity, accountability, innovation and commitment to community.

Touchstone Energy co-ops rank well ahead of their industry counterparts when it comes to customer satisfaction. Recent data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), one the nation’s most recognized measures of customer satisfaction, gives Touchstone Energy cooperatives an average score of “81” out of a possible 100, outclassing utility industry satisfaction score of “74.”

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