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Our mission: Access Energy Cooperative and Access Energy Propane are dedicated to exceeding our members' and customers' expectations for safe, reliable and efficient services!
Three Tiers Forms Strong System
Access Energy Cooperative obtains our power from a system of cooperatives that is organized into three levels or "tiers," each with its own set of responsibilities.
Distribution Cooperatives
- The system's top tier is made up of 51 distribution cooperatives in Missouri, southern Iowa and northeast Oklahoma.
- Access Energy Cooperative, your cooperative, is one of these.
- These distribution cooperatives provide electric service directly to consumer-members, including businesses, farms and households.
- Distribution cooperatives accept the responsibilities including installation and maintenance of power lines from substations to consumer-members, planning for the future needs of their service area, working with communities to encourage economic development and helping their members learn to conserve energy.
Transmission Cooperatives
- At the second level of the system are the regional cooperatives that transmit Associated's power to the 51 distribution cooperatives.
- Northeast Power is one of these.
- These organizations are known as generation and transmission cooperatives (G&Ts)
- They serve six geographical areas of Missouri, southern Iowa and northeast Oklahoma. Click here to view a map of this region.
- G&Ts work on a regional level as construction agents and also own and maintain all electrical systems above 161-kilovolt.
Generation Cooperative
The three-tier system is a very successful partnership
- Associated has wholesale electric rates that are among the lowest in the United States.
- Associated was recently ranked among the best positioned electric utilities in the nation to meet the competitive future by Fitch Investment Services
- Associated received high bond ratings from three separate rating agencies, engaged to assess its credit worthiness.
- The three-tier system brings efficiency through specialization at each level of the system. The entire three-tier system benefits from the economy of scale and, since each tier can react quickly to changes, the overall competitiveness of the system is improved.
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