Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative

Utility cooperative

A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members...

 headquartered in Muenster, Texas

Muenster, Texas

Muenster is a city in Cooke County, Texas, United States, along U.S. Route 82. The population was 1,556 at the 2000 census.-History:In 1887 the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad constructed a line from Gainesville to Henrietta that passed through the site that would become Muenster...

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The cooperative was organized in 1938 and serves portions of five counties in the state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, in a territory generally surrounding Muenster.

Currently Cooke County Electric has 3,026 miles of line and 14,564 meters. It is a member of Brazos Electric Power Cooperative

Brazos Electric Power Cooperative

Brazos Electric Power Cooperative is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative based in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1941, it was the first cooperative in Texas established for the purpose of generating and supplying electricity, and is currently the largest in Texas.Brazos operates four...

, a generation and transmission electric cooperative.