Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Electrical generation and distribution cooperative
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The Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) is an electrical generation and distribution cooperative founded in 1949 and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. It sells wholesale energy to 17 member cooperatives serving 500,000 customers across 62% of the land area of Arkansas.[1]
Company type
Nonprofit utility cooperativeFoundedJuly 11, 1949
Headquarters,
Key people
- Buddy Hasten (CEO)
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Company type | Nonprofit utility cooperative |
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| Founded | July 11, 1949 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people |
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| Products | Electricity |
| $736 million | |
| Total assets | $1.6 billion |
| Members | 17 regional cooperatives in Arkansas |
Number of employees | 248 |
| Website | aecc.com |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Generation facilities
| Name | Location | Fuel | Nameplate capacity (MW) |
Generating units |
Percent owned/ leased |
Opened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl S. Whillock | Morrilton | Hydropower | 32 | 3 | 100% | 1993[2] |
| Clyde T. Ellis | Barling | Hydropower | 32 | 3 | 100% | 1988[3] |
| Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas Hydropower Generating Station |
Dumas | Hydropower | 103 | 3 | 100% | 1999[4] |
| Elkins | Elkins | Natural gas | 60 | 2 | 100% | 2010[5] |
| Flint Creek | Gentry | Coal | 528 | 2 | 50% | 1978[6] |
| Fulton | Fulton | Natural gas | 153 | 1 | 100% | 2001[7] |
| Harry L. Oswald | Wrightsville | Natural gas | 548 | 9 | 100% | 2003[8] |
| Independence | Newark | Coal | 1700 | 2 | 35% | 1983[9] |
| John L. McClellan | Camden | Natural gas/Petroleum | 134 | 1 | 100% | 1971[10] |
| John W. Turk Jr. | Fulton | Natural gas | 600 | 1 | 12%[11] | 2012[12] |
| Magnet Cove | Magnet Cove | Natural gas | 660 | 3 | 100%[11] | 2006[13] |
| Thomas B. Fitzhugh | Ozark | Natural gas/Petroleum | 171 | 2 | 100% | 1963[14] |
| White Bluff | Redfield | Coal | 1659 | 2 | 35% | 1980[15] |
| Woodruff | Augusta | Solar | 122 | 1 | 100% | 2024 |
Long-term purchase agreements
Besides its owned and leased generation facilities, AECC also provides energy through long-term purchase agreements, including:
- a 20-year agreement to purchase 100 megawatts from the Wildhorse Mountain wind farm in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma[16]
- an agreement with the Southwestern Power Administration expiring June 30, 2020 to purchase up to 189 megawatts from its supply of hydropower[17]
- a 20-year agreement to purchase up to 51 megawatts from the Flat Ridge 2 wind farm in Kansas[18]
- a 20-year agreement to be the sole recipient of energy generated at the 150-megawatt Origin wind farm in Oklahoma[18]
Member cooperatives
- Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative
- Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative
- C&L Electric Cooperative
- Carroll Electric Cooperative
- Clay County Electric Cooperative
- Craighead Electric Cooperative
- Farmers Electric Cooperative
- First Electric Cooperative
- Mississippi County Electric Cooperative
- North Arkansas Electric Cooperative
- Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation
- Ozarks Electric Cooperative
- Petit Jean Electric Cooperative
- Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative
- South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative
- Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative
- Woodruff Electric Cooperative