The Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) is an electrical generation and distribution cooperative founded in 1949 and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. It sells wholesale energy to 17 member cooperatives serving 500,000 customers across 62% of the land area of Arkansas.
Generation facilities Name Location Fuel Nameplatecapacity (MW) Generating units Percent owned/leased Opened Carl S. Whillock Morrilton Hydropower 32 3 100% 1993 Clyde T. Ellis Barling Hydropower 32 3 100% 1988 Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas Hydropower Generating Station Dumas Hydropower 103 3 100% 1999 Elkins Elkins Natural gas 60 2 100% 2010 Flint Creek Gentry Coal 528 2 50% 1978 Fulton Fulton Natural gas 153 1 100% 2001 Harry L. Oswald Wrightsville Natural gas 548 9 100% 2003 Independence Newark Coal 1700 2 35% 1983 John L. McClellan Camden Natural gas/Petroleum 134 1 100% 1971 John W. Turk Jr. Fulton Natural gas 600 1 12%AECC leases this facility. 2012 Magnet Cove Magnet Cove Natural gas 660 3 100% 2006 Thomas B. Fitzhugh Ozark Natural gas/Petroleum 171 2 100% 1963 White Bluff Redfield Coal 1659 2 35% 1980 Woodruff Augusta Solar 122 1 100% 2024
Long-term purchase agreements Besides its owned and leased generation facilities, AECC also provides energy through long-term purchase agreements, including: a 20-year agreement to purchase 100 megawatts from the Wildhorse Mountain wind farm in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma an agreement with the Southwestern Power Administration expiring June 30, 2020 to purchase up to 189 megawatts from its supply of hydropower a 20-year agreement to purchase up to 51 megawatts from the Flat Ridge 2 wind farm in Kansas a 20-year agreement to be the sole recipient of energy generated at the 150-megawatt Origin wind farm in Oklahoma
Member cooperatives Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative C&L Electric Cooperative Carroll Electric Cooperative Clay County Electric Cooperative Craighead Electric Cooperative Farmers Electric Cooperative First Electric Cooperative Mississippi County Electric Cooperative North Arkansas Electric Cooperative Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corporation Ozarks Electric Cooperative Petit Jean Electric Cooperative Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative Southwest Arkansas Electric Cooperative Woodruff Electric Cooperative
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