NRECA is the national service organization for more than 900 not-for-profit rural electric cooperatives and public power districts providing retail electric service to more than 42 million consumers in 47 states and whose retail sales account for approximately 12 percent of total electricity sales in the United States.

NRECA’s members include consumer-owned local distribution systems — the vast majority — and 66 generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives that supply wholesale power to their distribution cooperative owner-members. Distribution and G&T cooperatives share an obligation to serve their members by providing safe, reliable and affordable electric service.

NRECA membership includes other organizations formed by these local utilities:

• Generation and transmission cooperatives for power supply
• Statewide and regional trade and service associations
• Supply and manufacturing cooperatives
• Data processing cooperatives
• Employee credit unions