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Co-ops by the Numbers

864 distribution and 66 G&T cooperatives serve:

• 39 million people in 47 states.

• 17 million businesses, homes, schools, churches, farms, irrigation systems, and other establishments in 2,500 of 3,141 counties in the U.S (80 percent of the nation’s counties).

• 12 percent of the nation's population.

To perform their mission, electric cooperatives:

• own assets worth $92 billion,

• own and maintain 2.4 million miles, or 43%, of the nation’s electric distribution lines, covering three quarters of the nation's landmass,

• deliver 10 percent of the total kilowatt hours sold in the U.S. each year,

• generate nearly 5 percent of the total electricity produced in the U.S. each year,

• employ 65,000 people in the United States,

• pay more than $1 billion in state and local taxes