About Members

• Bailey County Electric Cooperative Association
• Big Country Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Lamb County Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Lighthouse Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• North Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Rita Blanca Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• South Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Swisher Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Taylor Electric Cooperative, Inc.
• Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Bailey County Electric Cooperative Association

Bailey County Electric Cooperative Association is a distribution cooperative (Texas 62 Bailey County) with headquarters in Muleshoe, Texas, serving portions of Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Lamb, and Parmer Counties in the high plains region of Texas. The cooperative also has a branch office in Morton, Texas.

Bailey County's service area lies in the south-central Panhandle of Texas, and includes about 2,000 square miles at elevations of 3,500 to 4,400 feet. Farmland is found in both the northern and southern portions of the territory, which is separated by a strip of sand hills about 10 miles wide and extending from east to west across the area. This sand hill strip forms a dividing line between the 'north' and 'south' high plains of Texas. Underground water is plentiful in the sand hills and to the north, but south of the sand hills underground water is less plentiful and the territory is composed of mostly dryland farms and pasture land. All of the service area is flat plains country with occasional playa lakes and a few dry draws. Almost all of the land is tillable, except for a few of the roughest sand dunes and some of the draws and lake beds. The growing season is approximately 190 days; it is slightly shorter north of the sand hills. Principal crops grown in the area are alfalfa, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers, vegetables, wheat, and irrigated pastures. The economy of the region is highly dependent on agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Big Country Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Big Country Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 163 Fisher County) with offices in Roby, Stamford, and Snyder, Texas, serving portions of Borden, Fisher, Garza, Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall, Haskell, Shackelford, and Throckmorton counties in the low rolling plains region of Texas.

Big Country's service area lies in the northwestern central portion of Texas, with dimensions of 155 miles east to west, and 115 miles north to south, covering almost 5,700 square miles. The eastern part of the service area is level or gently rolling. The western part tends to be more rolling and hilly. The area is primarily devoted to agriculture (ranching and farming) and the oil and gas industry. Water is abundant on the southern sections, and depletion of ground water resources is of great concern.

The territory is flat plains, with almost all of the land tillable except for some playa lakes and draws in the northwest 'Caprock' area. A small portion of the service area is used as ranch land for both stocker and cow-calf operations. The cattle graze on improved pastures, stubble fields, and wheat pastures. The growing season is approximately 180 days. Principal crops are cotton, corn, grain sorghum, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on agricultural production, with changes affecting the load growth, population, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Coleman County Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 61 Coleman County) headquartered in Coleman County, Coleman, Texas, serving portions of Coleman, Runnels, Concho, Tom Green, Brown, Callahan, Coke and Taylor Counties.

Coleman County's service area lies in the central part of Texas, and includes about 3,737 miles of distribution line. Coleman County Electric is made up of mostly farm and ranch lands with a few industries. The area is known as the, "Land of the Lakes." Most all of the service territory, except for the lakes, is flat land where the main crops are cotton, alfalfa, grain, maize and wheat. The economy is dependent on farmers, ranchers and some industries. Changes in these affects population, load growth and kilowatt hour sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer primarily from irrigation and air condition loads during the hot and dry periods.

Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Concho Valley Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 114 Tom Green County) which serves portions of ten counties; Coke, Concho, Glasscock, Irion, Mitchell, Nolan, Reagan, Runnels, Sterling and Tom Green Counties in west central Texas including portions of the City of San Angelo.

The western half of the service area lies primarily within the Edwards Plateau region. The terrain is rolling to mountainous and is comprised of both woodlands and grasslands. The eastern portion of the cooperative's service area lies within the Rolling Plains Region of the state of Texas. Approximately two-thirds of the area is rangeland. Lakes and rivers which provide recreation for the area include Twin Buttes Reservoir and Lake Nasworthy in Tom Green County, the Middle Concho River in Irion County, Lake Spence in Coke County and the North Concho River in Sterling County.

Much of the cooperative's service area is rangeland which is used for the grazing of cattle, sheep and goats. This region is the nation's leading center for producing and shipping wool and mohair. The region is home to many species of wildlife including quail, dove, turkey, deer and rabbits with many hunting leases providing recreation and income for the area.

The economy of the service area is oil and gas production and agribusiness. Farming activities produce cotton, sorghum, hay, wheat, oats, pecans and dairy operations. Due to excellent medical facilities and climate, many retirees are attracted to the service area. Angelo State University and Goodfellow Air Force Base are major contributors to the area economy and culture.

The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 47 Deaf Smith County) with headquarters in Hereford, Texas, serving portions of Castro, Deaf Smith, Oldham and Parmer Counties in the high plains region of Texas.

Deaf Smith's service area lies in the western Panhandle of Texas, and includes about 3,000 square miles at elevations of 3,600 to 4,500 feet. The Ogallala Aquifer lies underneath most of the area, with the exception of the extreme northwest sections. Water is most abundant on the southern section's. The territory is flat plains; almost all of the land is tillable, with the exception of some playa lakes and draws in the northwest 'Caprock' area. A small portion of the service area is used as ranch land for both stocker and cow-calf operations. The cattle graze on improved pastures, stubble fields and wheat pastures. The growing season is approximately 180 days. Principal crops are cotton, corn, grain sorghum, vegetables, sugar beets, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 80 Collingsworth County) with headquarters in Wellington, Texas, serving portions of Armstrong, Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Randall, Roberts, and Wheeler Counties.

Greenbelt's service area lies in the south-central and southeast Panhandle of Texas, and includes about 4,000 square miles at elevations of 1,800 to 3,500 feet. The service area is divided by the Salt Fork and the North Fork of the Red River, and bordered along the west and south by the Palo Duro Canyon and the Caprock. The terrain varies from level plains in the west, to rolling broken lands in the eastern areas. The region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Lamb County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Lamb County Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 59 Lamb County) with headquarters in Littlefield, Texas, serving portions of Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, and Lamb Counties.

Lamb County's service area lies in the South Plains of Texas, and includes about 1,600 square miles at elevations of 3,300 to 3,800 feet. The cooperative's members are located in an area extending approximately 60 miles from north to south, and varying from 15 to 30 miles in width. The service area is divided by a strip of sand hills about ten miles wide that sections off the northern one-third of the area.

The Ogallala Aquifer lies under most of the service area. The northern portion has an abundant underground water supply, while in the southern portion water is less plentiful. Because of the lack of availability of underground water, the southern portion of the territory is mostly dryland farms and pasture land.

Principal crops grown in the area are alfalfa, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, vegetables, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, oil and natural gas-related industries, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Lighthouse Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Lighthouse Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 55 Floyd County) with headquarters in Floydada, Texas, serving portions of Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Donley, Floyd, Hale, Hall, Motley, and Swisher Counties.

Lighthouse's service area lies in the south-central Panhandle of Texas and includes about 7,000 square miles at elevations of 2,067 to 3,366 feet. Sixty percent of the area, or about 4,200 square miles, is flat plains country all of which is tillable farm land, with the exception of a few scattered ranches. The other forty percent of the service territory lies below the Caprock in the rolling plains area of Texas.

The Ogallala Aquifer lies under all of the flat plains portion of the service area. Water can be found over all the service area. However, in some areas there is only enough for windmills and stock water wells. There is practically no surface water available except what collects in playa lakes after rains, which can then be returned to the land by the use of lake pumps.

The growing season is approximately 190 days. Principal crops grown in the area are alfalfa, corn, cotton, grain sorghum, peanuts, soybeans, sunflowers, vegetables, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Lyntegar Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 060 Lynn County) headquarted in Tahoka with branch offices located at Sundown, Lamesa and Seagraves, Texas. Lyntegar serves portions of Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Martin, Terry and Yoakum Counties.

The Cooperative serves all or parts of the counties listed above as well as the following cities: City of Sundown, City of New Home, City of Brownfield, City of Lamesa, City of Plains, City of Meadow, City of Levelland and City of Wilson.

Lyntegar serves more than 5,000 members through more than 20,000 meter connections in an area of approximately 5,500 square miles. Terrain within the Cooperative’s system is mainly farmland typical of the South Plains. Land varies little in elevation except where there are canyons or at the edge of the Caprock. Due to the area involved, there is a heavy irrigation load in parts of the system, with the Cooperative serving more than 9800 irrigation wells and more than 2000 oil wells.

LEC Development, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lyntegar Electric Cooperative.

North Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc.

North Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 135 Ochiltree County) with headquarters in Perryton, Texas, serving portions of Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, and Wheeler Counties.

North Plains' service area lies in the Northeastern Panhandle of Texas, at an elevation of approximately 3,000 feet. The region consists of mostly level farmland, with some rougher terrain found in areas close to creeks and rivers. The rougher terrain is used mainly for grazing. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural and oil and gas production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Rita Blanca Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Rita Blanca Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 145 Dallam County) with headquarters in Dalhart, Texas, serving portions of Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, and Sherman Counties.

Rita Blanca's service area lies in the northwestern Panhandle of Texas, and includes about 5,500 square miles at elevations of 2,900 to 4,600 feet. The topography varies from the Canadian River basin which, with its tributaries, is the major drainage basin of the area, to the upland high plains of north Texas. Except for small stream beds which are dry during most of the year, the major portion of the service area is relatively flat. The Ogallala Aquifer lies underneath most of the area. Water is abundant in the service area. Because of the relative flatness of the terrain, the land is well suited to surface irrigation with minimum land preparation.

The growing season is approximately 190 days. Principal crops are corn, grain sorghum, alfalfa, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural and oil and gas production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

South Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc.

South Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 56 Lubbock County) with headquarters in Lubbock, Texas, serving portions of Crosby, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock and Lynn Counties. Additional offices are located in Lorenzo and southwest of Lubbock.

South Plains' service area is in the south-central Panhandle of Texas, and includes about 1,400 square miles at an elevation of 3,200 feet. The cooperative service area lies within the basin of the Brazos River, which flows to the southeast portions of the state of Texas.

The Ogallala Aquifer lies underneath most of the area, and provides most of the water supply of good quality for irrigation pumping and other uses throughout the area. The growing season is approximately 190 days. Principal crops are cotton, corn, grain sorghum, and wheat. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production and oil and gas related industries, with changes affecting population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 124 Schleicher County) with headquarters in Eldorado, Texas. The Cooperative serves all or parts of Schleicher, Sutton, Menard, Tom Green, Irion, Reagan, Upton, Crockett, Pecos, Val Verde, Concho and Edwards Counties.

The service territory covers 7200 square miles of rural West Texas, extending from the edge of the Chihuahuan desert to the west, to beautiful live oak covered hill country to the east. The service territory is dominated by farming, ranching and oilfield activity.

The majority of farming is dryland with the main crops consisting of cotton, milo, small grain and hay. Ranching has been popular since the first settlers in the region. Boer goats, sheep and cows are the most prevalent of ranching animals.

The oilfield continues to be a dominate economic force. Almost eighty percent of the cooperative load is directly related to oilfield activities. Oil and gas production occurs in every county that is served by Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative. Today, drilling continues at a steady pace as the demand for fossil fuels continues to climb.

Southwest Texas Electric Cooperative currently serves 8,376 meters with over 4,963 miles of energized line.

Swisher Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Swisher Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 108 Swisher County) with headquarters in Tulia, Texas, serving portions of Armstrong, Briscoe, Castro, Hale, Randall, and Swisher Counties.

Swisher serves in the south-central Panhandle of Texas. The service area includes about 1,871 square miles at an elevation of approximately 3,500 feet. The majority of the area consists of smooth and gently sloping plains. However, in the eastern section, the smooth plains break off into eroded areas which are a part of the rolling plains section of Texas. Generally, there is an escarpment which separates the high plains area from the rolling plains.

The Ogallala Aquifer lies under most of the service area. It provides most of the water supply of good quality for irrigation pumping and other uses throughout the southern high plains.
The growing season is approximately 190 days per year and the principal farm crops are corn, cotton, grain sorghum, hay, and wheat. sunflowers, and vegetables are also grown in smaller quantities in the service area. The cattle industry is enhanced by winter wheat pasture and summer grass production on the rangeland. More than 300,000 cattle are fed each year in area feed yards. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.

Taylor Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Taylor Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a distribution cooperative (Texas 106 Taylor County) with headquarters in Merkel, Texas, serving portions of Taylor, Callahan, Jones, Nolan, Shackelford, Fisher, Coke and Eastland Counties.

Taylor's service area lies in the north-central Plains of Texas and covers approximately 2,250 miles. The expansive area is diverse lying between the massive Oak Trees and Blue Mountains at Buffaclo Gap and across to Sweetwater-Trent Mesa and then to the rolling flat lands.

Much of the service area is agricultural based with cotton and wheat as the dominate crops. The average growing season lasts 225 days. There is a strong oil and gas load in the region, as well as active cattle ranching and hunting lease interest. The cooperative services over 4,577 miles of energized line.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc.

Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Inc., is a distribution cooperative (Oklahoma 34 Texas County) with headquarters in Hooker, Oklahoma, serving Beaver, Cimarron, and Texas Counties.

Tri-County's service area lies in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, and is about 35 miles wide and 144 miles long. The area lies at elevations of 1,990 to 4,979 feet. The dark mesas of northwest Cimarron County dominate the highest point. From there, the land drifts eastward in an indistinct decline into the Great Plains, which consists of short grass, gama, and buffalo grass prairie land, along with mesquite and sagebrush. The economy of the region is highly dependent on the agricultural production, with changes affecting the population, load growth, and electricity sales. The maximum demand for electricity occurs during the summer, rising primarily from irrigation and air conditioning loads during the hot and dry periods.