RESOURCES
Wisconsin’s 25 electric cooperatives provide electric service to more than 263,500 homes and business representing nearly 600,000 citizens across many of the state’s rural communities. Wisconsin’s electric cooperatives also:
- Employ nearly 1,500 people;
- Maintain more than 50,752 miles of powerlines; and
- On average, serve 5.27 members per mile of line.
Nationally, there are more than 930 electric cooperatives that collectively own and maintain 2.5 million miles, or 42 percent, of the nation’s electric distribution lines, covering three quarters of the nation's landmass. They serve:
- 42 million people in 47 states
- 19 million businesses, homes, and other establishments
- 2,500 of 3,141 counties in the United States
- 327 of the nation's 353 persistent poverty counties (93%)
- 12 percent of the nation's population