Alabama Power

Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative is a nonprofit, member-owned and democratically run rural electric company that serves governments, churches, schools, and commercial and residential customers. Its Green Power Choice is a program designed to protect the environment. Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative offers products that protect appliances and electronics from damage due to lightning and power surges. The company also sells appliances, electronics and water heaters from the General Electric and Frigidaire brands. It offers financing options to individuals for the purchase of appliances and electronics. The company is a member of Touchstone Energy, which is a group of more than 600 electric cooperatives in the United States. Its residential energy calculator helps in calculating baseline energy costs. Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative is located in Talladega, Ala.

Founded in 1936, Cullman Electric Cooperative is a nonprofit electric membership representing four counties in northern Alabama. It is committed to providing service for more than 36,000 customers and is owned by its members. Cullman Electric Cooperative integrated an interactive voice response unit that assists it members in obtaining information relating to their account, reporting outages and providing customer service to its members. This system requires that remote offices be connected to its main location to appear as one office that is transparent to the customer. The cooperative also requires project management services in order to assist with designs of the telecommunications networks, as well as the implementation of these services. Its main office is in Cullman, Ala., and its branch office is in Addison, Ala.