Grass-roots governance strengthens AECI
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John Bledsoe, vice president of SEMO Electric Cooperative, discusses an issue with Harold Jordan, vice president of M&A Electric Power Cooperative and vice president of AECI, during AECI's annual meeting.
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Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. has many strengths: tremendous generation and transmission assets;
a strong balance sheet; and a dedicated, talented workforce. Its core strength though continues to be
member governance and involvement.
Associated's 12 board members, elected to serve and represent Associated's six owner generation and
transmission cooperatives, are actively engaged and involved in developing the cooperative's direction.
Associated and its member systems are tied together in a unique, three-tiered system of generation,
transmission and distribution cooperatives. Each tier is committed to the others through all-requirements
contracts. These contracts ensure that Associated will provide a wholesale power supply to meet members'
needs, and that member systems will buy all their power supply from Associated. These reciprocal obligations
produce one of the best electric cooperative organizations in the nation.
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