Nueces Electric Cooperative Email Format
UtilitiesTexas, United States51-200 Employees
Nueces Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric utility founded in 1938 and based in Robstown, in the South Texas Gulf Coast region. It owns and maintains a substantial portion of the local electricity infrastructure, including more than 3,200 miles of power lines and service to over 19,000 electric meters across eight counties. Notable for its deregulated status, NEC is the only deregulated cooperative in Texas and one of a small number nationally, and it has a history of Navy contracts, owning and maintaining the power lines for Naval Air Station Corpus Christi and Naval Air Station Kingsville. The cooperative also operates NEC Co-op Energy, its competitive retail electric provider. Because it functions on a non-profit basis, margins are returned to members as annual bill credits rather than distributed to investors. NEC serves eight South Texas counties surrounding the Gulf Coast.