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Company type | Nonprofit utility cooperative |
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Founded | July 11, 1949 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | |
Products | Electricity |
$736 million | |
Total assets | $1.6 billion |
Members | 17 regional cooperatives in Arkansas |
Number of employees | 248 |
Website | aecc.com |
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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]
Name | Location | Fuel | Nameplate capacity (MW) | Generating units | Percent owned/ leased | Opened |
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Carl E. Bailey | Augusta | Natural gas | 122 | 1 | 100% | 1966 [2] |
Carl S. Whillock | Morrilton | Hydropower | 32 | 3 | 100% | 1993 [3] |
Clyde T. Ellis | Barling | Hydropower | 32 | 3 | 100% | 1988 [4] |
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas Hydropower Generating Station | Dumas | Hydropower | 103 | 3 | 100% | 1999 [5] |
Elkins | Elkins | Natural gas | 60 | 2 | 100% | 2010 [6] |
Flint Creek | Gentry | Coal | 528 | 2 | 50% | 1978 [7] |
Fulton | Fulton | Natural gas | 153 | 1 | 100% | 2001 [8] |
Harry L. Oswald | Wrightsville | Natural gas | 548 | 9 | 100% | 2003 [9] |
Independence | Newark | Coal | 1700 | 2 | 35% | 1983 [10] |
John L. McClellan | Camden | Natural gas/Petroleum | 134 | 1 | 100% | 1971 [11] |
John W. Turk Jr. | Fulton | Natural gas | 600 | 1 | 12% [12] | 2012 [13] |
Magnet Cove | Magnet Cove | Natural gas | 660 | 3 | 100% [12] | 2006 [14] |
Thomas B. Fitzhugh | Ozark | Natural gas/Petroleum | 171 | 2 | 100% | 1963 [15] |
White Bluff | Redfield | Coal | 1659 | 2 | 35% | 1980 [16] |
Besides its owned and leased generation facilities, AECC also provides energy through long-term purchase agreements, including:
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