Egyptian Electric

EECA Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association is a not-for-profit service cooperative owned by those who receive our services ( called member-owners ). We are governed by a nine-person board elected from among the member-owners. Board members hold three-year terms, with three directors elected each year at an annual meeting. From 1940, when 224 members on a 95-mile-long line in Jackson and Randolph counties were the first to receive power from the cooperative, Egyptian Electric has been an important part of the economic and social development of the region. Today, with headquarters in Steeleville and a district office in Murphysboro, we provide electric service to more than 14, 000 meters over a distribution network of nearly 2, 150 miles of line. In the late 1950's, our leaders and those from SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative, Eldorado, and Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative, Dongola, recognized that having control over the source of wholesale power would determine our destiny and future. In 1964, the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative Generating plant at the Lake of Egypt was put on-line with 99 megawatts of steam generating power.