First Electric Cooperative (Arkansas)
- First Electric Cooperative (Arkansas)
First Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Jacksonville, Arkansas, with district offices in Benton, Heber Springs, Perryville, and Stuttgart, Arkansas.
The Cooperative was organized in April, 1937 and the first power lines were energized in April 1938 to 150 members. Its name comes from the fact that it was the first rural electric cooperative organized in Arkansas.
The Cooperative serves portions of seventeen counties in the state of Arkansas, in a territory generally located in the central and southeastern portions of the state. The territory is not contiguous.
Currently (as of September 2005) the Cooperative has more than 9,700 miles of distribution lines, 39 substations and services approximately 70,000 accounts. It considers itself the largest electric distribution cooperative in Arkansas and among the 30 largest in the United States.
External links
* [http://www.fecc.com/ First Electric Cooperative (Arkansas)]
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