Category: Rural Power Project

Georgia relatively complete information is available from twenty-four (24) of the forty-two (42) cooperatives or 57.1%. Men constitute 48.8% of the population but hold 90.9% of the seats on cooperative boards, while women constitute 51.2% and only hold 9.1% of the seats. Of the known board membership 96.5% are white and 3.5% are African-American, although the state population counts 54.3% white, 31.5% black, and 9.3% Hispanic. There are no Hispanic cooperative board members.

Altamaha EMC
Amicalola EMC
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC
Canoochee EMC
Carroll EMC
Central Georgia EMC
Coastal Electric Cooperative
Cobb EMC
Colquitt EMC
Coweta-Fayette EMC
Diverse Power
Excelsior EMC
Flint Energies
Georgia Electric Membership Corp
Grady EMC
GreyStone Power Corporation
Habersham EMC
Hart EMC
Irwin EMC
Jackson EMC
Jefferson Energy Cooperative
Little Ocmulgee EMC
Middle Georgia EMC
Mitchell EMC
North Georgia EMC
Ocmulgee EMC
Oconee EMC
Okefenoke REMC
Planters EMC
Rayle EMC
Satilla REMC
Sawnee EMC
Slash Pine EMC
Snapping Shoals EMC
Southern Rivers Energy
Sumter EMC
Three Notch EMC
Tri-County EMC
Tri-State EMC
Upson EMC
Walton EMC
Washington EMC

To its credit at least the electrical cooperatives in Florida are a bit
more transparent with all fifteen (15) displaying pictures of their
board members. On the other hand that also makes it easier to
establish that of 158 board members in the state, 153 are white
or 96.8%, only 3 in this state where 16.8% of the population is
African-American are black or 1.9%, and where 24.1% identify as Hispanic, only one (1) cooperative board member in the state or 0.6% is Hispanic.

Central Florida Electric Cooperative
Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative
Clay Electric Cooperative
Escambia River Electric Cooperative
Florida Keys Electric Cooperative
Glades Electric Cooperative
Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative
Okefenoke Electric Cooperative
Peace River Electric Cooperative
Seminole Electric Cooperative
Sumter Electric Cooperative
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative
Talquin Electric Cooperative
Tri-County Electric Cooperative
West Florida Electric Cooperative
Withlacoochee Electric Cooperative

There is available information from ten (10) of the twenty-four (24) cooperatives inn Alabama which is the lowest level of transparency in the twelve (12) states of the South. Men are 48.5% of the state
population, but hold 90.4% of the cooperative board seats. Women are 51.5% of the population, and hold 10.9% of the seats on coop boards. Racially, Alabama is 67% white, 26.7%, and 4.1% Hispanic. Available data on coop participation indicates that 148 members or 95.5% are white, seven (7) are black or 4.5%, and zero (0) are Hispanic.

Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives
Arab Electric Cooperative
Baldwin EMC
Black Warrior EMC
Central Alabama Electric Cooperative
Cherokee Electric Cooperative
Clarke-Washington EMC
CoosaValley Electric Cooperative
Covington Electric Cooperative
Cullman Electric Cooperative
Dixie Electric Cooperative
Franklin Electric Cooperative
Joe Wheeler EMC
Marshall-DeKalb Electric Cooperative
North Alabama Electric Cooperative
Pea River Electric Cooperative
Pioneer Electric Cooperative Inc.
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative
Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative
South Alabama Electric Cooperative
Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative
Tombigbee Electric Cooperative
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative