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Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation

Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation is a Little Rock generation and transmission cooperative, incorporated in 1949, that wholesales power to Arkansas' distribution cooperatives, covering about 62% of the state's land area.

Austin Energy

Austin Energy is the municipally owned electric utility of the City of Austin, Texas, established in 1895 and known for renewables, which make up about half its generation mix.

Basin Electric Power Cooperative

Basin Electric Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative based in Bismarck, North Dakota, founded in 1961 to supply wholesale power to rural cooperatives.

Big Rivers Electric

Big Rivers Electric (BREC) is a member-owned, not-for-profit generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Owensboro, Kentucky, wholesaling power to three member cooperatives serving over 120,000 customers across 22 western Kentucky counties.

Buckeye Power

Buckeye Power, Inc. is Ohio's not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative, formed in 1959 and owned by the member cooperatives it supplies, serving nearly 400,000 homes and businesses, chiefly through the coal-fired Cardinal Power Plant.

City Utilities of Springfield

City Utilities of Springfield is a community-owned municipal utility providing electricity, natural gas, water, SpringNet broadband, and CityBus transit to about 270,000 people in southwest Missouri.

Cooperative Energy

Cooperative Energy, formerly South Mississippi Electric, is a not-for-profit, member-owned generation and transmission cooperative in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, founded in 1941 to supply 11 distribution cooperatives serving about 460,000 members across 55 counties.

CPS Energy

CPS Energy is the municipally owned electric and gas utility of San Antonio, Texas, serving roughly 950,000 electric customers since its 1942 purchase by the city.

East Kentucky Power Cooperative

East Kentucky Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric utility in Winchester, Kentucky, that generates wholesale power for 16 member cooperatives serving over 1.2 million Kentuckians.

Energy Northwest

Energy Northwest, formerly the Washington Public Power Supply System, is a Washington joint operating agency formed in 1957 that generates carbon-free electricity at cost for member utilities.

EPB (Chattanooga)

EPB, formally the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, is a municipally owned utility providing electric power and fiber internet, known as America's first "Gig City."

Grand River Dam Authority

The Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) is an Oklahoma state agency created in 1935 that generates and sells electricity and manages the Grand and Illinois Rivers.

Great River Energy

Great River Energy is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, formed in 1999 by merger and supplying wholesale power to member-owned distribution cooperatives.

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Baise Electric Power

Electric power in Baise, a prefecture-level city in western Guangxi, China, comes from overlapping grids: China Southern Power Grid's main grid plus several municipal state-owned local utilities.

Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative

Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana, founded by farmers in 1949 to provide affordable wholesale power to 17 member cooperatives serving more than 700,000 consumers.

Intermountain Power Agency

The Intermountain Power Agency is a political subdivision of the State of Utah, organized in 1977, that owns the 1,800 MW Intermountain Power Project serving Utah and California.

JEA (Florida)

JEA is the municipally owned electric, water, and sewer utility of Jacksonville, Florida, an independent city agency since the late 1960s and the largest municipal utility in Florida.

Long Island Power Authority

The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) is a not-for-profit public utility created by New York in 1986 that owns the electric grid serving Long Island and the Rockaway Peninsula.

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is the municipal utility of Los Angeles and the largest municipal water and power utility in the United States.

Lower Colorado River Authority

The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is a publicly owned Texas utility created in 1934 to manage the lower Colorado River and generate electric power for Central Texas.

Minnkota Power Cooperative

Minnkota Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric generation and transmission cooperative based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, serving 11 member cooperatives in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota.

Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia

The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG Power) is a nonprofit statewide public corporation created by the Georgia General Assembly in 1975, supplying wholesale power to 49 member communities.

Nebraska Public Power District

Nebraska Public Power District is a publicly owned, not-for-profit electric utility headquartered in Columbus, Nebraska, serving about 530,000 people across 84 of the state's 93 counties.

New York Power Authority

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is the largest state public power organization in the United States, created in 1931 and selling electricity mostly at wholesale.

Oglethorpe Power

Oglethorpe Power is a not-for-profit generation and energy asset management cooperative headquartered in Tucker, Georgia, which supplies wholesale power to Georgia's electric membership corporations and co-owns the Vogtle nuclear plant.

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) is a not-for-profit wholesale generation and transmission cooperative incorporated in Virginia in 1948, serving 11 member distribution cooperatives that supply about 1.5 million people across Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.

Omaha Public Power District

Omaha Public Power District is a not-for-profit, customer-owned public electric utility and political subdivision of Nebraska serving Omaha and 13 counties, created by the legislature in 1946.

Orlando Utilities Commission

The Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) is a municipally owned electric and water utility serving Orlando and St. Cloud, Florida, created by the state legislature in 1923.

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is a generation and transmission electric cooperative headquartered in Andalusia, Alabama. Founded in 1941, it wholesales power to 18 cooperatives and four municipal systems.

Sacramento Municipal Utility District

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, known as SMUD, is a community-owned, not-for-profit electric utility serving most of Sacramento County and parts of Placer and Yolo counties.