A Powerfully United Network
Crawford Electric Cooperative is part of a larger network of member-owned utilities throughout the state and the nation.
Missouri's 47 electric cooperatives have joined together to form the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, which 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.
NRECA, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, represents more than 900 electric cooperatives, which serve 34 million people in 46 states, providing power to 13 million businesses, homes, schools, churches, farms and irrigation systems.
The nation’s electric co-ops serve 2,500 of 3,128 counties in the United States. We serve three quarters of the America’s landmass. Our 2.3 million miles of electric lines represent 44 percent of the nation’s total.
Despite this vast network, electric co-ops serve just 11 percent of the nation's population and supply only 7.9 percent of the total kilowatt-hours sold in the United States. This great disparity between the size of our system and the number of consumers points to the challenge electric co-ops face serving sparsely populated rural areas.
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