Co-op Business Model

The highlight of serving as your statewide president was traveling around Iowa to attend 36 electric cooperative meetings and talking with over 300 directors and 35 co-op managers in their own board rooms.

To help your holiday gift-giving or list-making, we’ve combined a list of electric cooperative-served businesses that offer unique gifts to place under the Christmas tree or in a stocking.

For more than 80 years, electric co-ops have maintained reliable and affordable electric service, provided stable career opportunities and paid taxes, which have vast ripple effects throughout the regions we serve. 

The energy industry depends on such a vast range of abilities offers job seekers a variety of career opportunities. Here are six reasons electric co-ops are a great place to work.

Cooperatives are more than businesses; they are pillars of empowerment, resilience and sustainable development that are shaping Iowa’s local economies.

We all know at least one person who  makes our neighborhood or community a better place to live. Before June 30, enter them in Iowa's electric cooperatives' 2023 statewide Shine the Light contest! Three nominees will ultimately receive $2,500 donations to their local charities.

In late February, The Des Moines Register’s editorial board published a reckless column calling for MidAmerican Energy and other Iowa electric utilities to abandon coal, “even if doing so also means taking some gambles on brownouts and blackouts, price volatility and newer technology.”

At the heart of the principles that guide Iowa’s electric cooperatives is the desire to improve the lives of the people and communities they serve. Learn how electric co-ops support growth of rural Iowa hospitals and clinics.

It is a year of new beginnings in the Iowa Legislature, with about one-third of the representatives and senators starting their first term. Learn more about an important focus for Iowa's electric cooperatives this session.

The Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives published its first statewide publication 75 years ago. Today, through Iowa Electric Cooperative Living magazine, we remain steadfast in delivering valuable information to member-consumers throughout the state.