North Western Electric Co-op

North Western Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Bryan, Ohio, is a member-owned electric power corporation supplying electric energy to nearly 6,000 member-customers in portions of Williams, Defiance, Henry and Paulding counties (see maps). North Western Electric is one of 26 rural electric distribution cooperatives in Ohio.

Ownership makes the difference! Unlike investor-owned utilities that must balance the interest of the customer with that of Wall Street or the municipal utility that is operated by governmental bureaucrats, electric cooperatives provide services solely in the interest of the member. The results can be amazing. Each and every employee of the rural electric program works for the benefit of the member, while the member is treated with the uncommon distinction that he/she is the owner. We think that makes a powerful difference in today's competitive marketplace.

Number of customers	5,858
Number of meters	6,011
Miles of underground distribution lines	108
Miles of overhead distribution lines	836
Miles of transmission lines	68.5
Customers per mile of line	5.5
Patronage capital refunded to date	$8.6 million
Date and location Cooperative first organized	May 16, 1936; Montpelier, Ohio
Federal financing agency	Rural Utilities Service (RUS)
Generation and Transmission Cooperative Memberships	Buckeye Power, Inc., Columbus, Ohio National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NRECA), Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives (Buckeye Power), and National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUCFC)