WHO WE ARE
Northeast Power is a not-for-profit transmission electric utility headquartered in Palmyra, Missouri. We are owned by the eight member-distribution cooperatives we serve - three in southeast Iowa and five in northeast Missouri.
We are part of a three-tiered not-for-profit cooperative system. Each level has its own set of unique responsibilities. The member-distribution cooperatives are the top tier. They provide electric service directly to the member-owners, which include businesses, farms and households.
Northeast Power is part of the second level of the three-tiered system, which is primarily responsible for transmission services and delivery of wholesale power to our member-distribution cooperatives.
HISTORY
On February 2, 1948, Northeast Power was founded by three rural electric cooperatives in northeast Missouri. Originally, Northeast Power relied on power purchased from the U.S. Bureau of Mines power plant in Louisiana, Missouri.
In 1961, Northeast Power joined with five other generation and transmission electric cooperatives in Missouri to form Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (Associated). The goal was to place existing and future generation under one operating unit. Associated is now one of the nation's largest wholesale power suppliers and maintains rates that are among the lowest in the United States.