Your cooperative is one of 28 member/owned and controlled non-profit Rural Electric Cooperatives in Oklahoma.

Our service area covers 3,000 square miles and includes portions of Creek, McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa and Wagoner counties.

The Cooperative’s $74,409,000 net electric plant provides service at cost to 29,645 meters through a network of 5,854 miles of power lines and 24 substations. Service crews are stationed in Bixby, Bristow, Checotah, Morris, Muskogee, Okemah and Okmulgee.

Major wholesale power sources are KAMO Power, Vinita, and Western Farmers Electric, Anadarko. The Cooperative is financed by loans from the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC), Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and paid-in capital from member/owners.

The Cooperative’s policies are set by a seven-member board of Trustees, elected for three-year terms by the member/owners. They represent seven districts. A Manager supervises the operation of the Cooperative with the aid of three departments: Member Services, Office Services and Operations & Engineering. East Central Electric is under jurisdiction of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and its rules, regulations and rates are approved by the Commission.

East Central Electric’s Articles of Incorporation were approved November 15, 1938. Charter members who filed the Articles were J.B. Berryman, Okemah; D.M. Bonner, Henryetta; Buster Brown, Bixby; D.W. Kinsey, Hoffman; Homer Penequin, Henryetta; George W. Sartin, Haskell; J. Harry Swan, Okmulgee; Donald A. Turnisky, Mounds; W.S. Warner, Muskogee and Fred E. Wilson, Beggs. Berryman, Swan, Turinsky, Warner and Wilson were the first Trustees.

The Cooperative’s first sub-station was energized in 1939 in the Bald Hill area. The first electric meter was set in December 1939 near Beggs on the J.E. Capps farm.