Affiliations

Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive belongs to and works with a num­ber of relat­ed pro­fes­sion­al orga­ni­za­tions. Shar­ing infor­ma­tion and advance­ments with mem­bers of these groups is vital to keep­ing our stan­dards high and our knowl­edge of inno­va­tions and devel­op­ments in the fields of elec­tric pow­er and relat­ed areas up-to-date and even ahead of the curve.

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Coastal Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive is a mem­ber of the Nation­al Rur­al Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive Asso­ci­a­tion, a nation­al trade orga­ni­za­tion rep­re­sent­ing the nation­al inter­ests of coop­er­a­tive elec­tric util­i­ties and the con­sumers they serve. NRECA’s near­ly 900 mem­ber coop­er­a­tives serve over 21 mil­lion busi­ness­es, homes, schools, and farms in 48 states across 56% of the nation’s land­mass.

Georgia Electric Membership Corporation

Our state trade asso­ci­a­tion is Geor­gia Elec­tric Mem­ber­ship Cor­po­ra­tion (GEMC), serv­ing Georgia’s elec­tric coop­er­a­tives. Through GEMC, all of Georgia’s elec­tric coop­er­a­tives pool their resources to gain strength and effi­cien­cy on issues com­mon to elec­tric coop­er­a­tives. GEMC is the pub­lish­er of GEORGIA Mag­a­zine, which is sent to our mem­bers month­ly. The pow­er we deliv­er to our mem­bers is pur­chased from Oglethor­pe Pow­er Cor­po­ra­tion and Geor­gia Ener­gy Coop­er­a­tive. That ener­gy is deliv­ered over the state’s net­work of inte­grat­ed trans­mis­sion lines and sub­sta­tions by Geor­gia Trans­mis­sion Cor­po­ra­tion.

Touchstone Energy Cooperatives

Con­nect­ing the peo­ple of America’s elec­tric coop­er­a­tives to ben­e­fit mem­bers and their com­mu­ni­ties makes Touch­stone Ener­gy Coop­er­a­tives dif­fer­ent from tra­di­tion­al pow­er com­pa­nies. Touch­stone Ener­gy Coop­er­a­tives rep­re­sents a nation­wide alliance of mem­ber-owned elec­tric co-ops, includ­ing yours. Col­lec­tive­ly, it deliv­ers pow­er and ener­gy solu­tions to more than 750 uni­fied local elec­tric coop­er­a­tives across 46 states, form­ing the largest elec­tric util­i­ty in the coun­try.

Green Power EMC

Green Pow­er EMC is a part­ner­ship of 28 Geor­gia elec­tric mem­ber­ship coop­er­a­tives who through work­ing togeth­er have giv­en Geor­gia res­i­dents the state’s first choice of “green” elec­tric­i­ty. EMCs are con­sumer-owned util­i­ties that pro­vide ener­gy and oth­er val­ue-added ser­vices to their mem­bers at cost. The Green Pow­er EMC mem­bers rep­re­sent more than three mil­lion Geor­gia homes, busi­ness­es, fac­to­ries, and farms.

Oglethorpe Power

Oglethor­pe Pow­er Cor­po­ra­tion is owned by and serves near­ly all of the Elec­tric Mem­ber­ship Cor­po­ra­tions (EMCs) across Geor­gia, which, in turn, pro­vide retail elec­tric ser­vice to mil­lions of Geor­gians.

Georgia Transmission Corporation

Near­ly all of the state’s elec­tric coop­er­a­tives (EMCs) own Geor­gia Trans­mis­sion Cor­po­ra­tion, which plans, builds, and main­tains the trans­mis­sion sys­tem of thou­sands of miles of pow­er lines and hun­dreds of sub­sta­tions. The com­pa­ny also joint­ly owns and plans Georgia’s thou­sands of miles of trans­mis­sion lines and sub­sta­tions with Geor­gia Pow­er, MEAG Pow­er, and Dal­ton Util­i­ties.