About Us

What is NORTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE?  

A business corporation chartered by the State of Texas and operating under Texas laws. It is wholly owned and controlled by the people in Hansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts and Wheeler counties, to whom it provides electric service.

It pays all state and local taxes.The North Plains Electric Cooperative is a business owned by a specific group of people, (not the public) so it is a private enterprise. The people who use its services are members of the organization. They own it. They control it. 

As a cooperative, it operates on a non-profit basis. All revenues, over and above the cost of doing business for a year, are credited to members under a patronage refund plan called Capital Credits. These Capital Credits will be repaid to the members in cash after a certain amount of reserves are accumulated.

The aim of North Plains Electric Cooperative, Inc. is to make electric energy available to its members at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and good management.