Battle River Power Coop

Battle River Power Coop is an electric distribution service in Alberta with a history of over 70 years, servicing 13 municipal districts and counties and over 8,500 members. Grounded in tradition, connected to community, and powered cooperatively! Our rural Alberta service area stretches from the Town of Bruderheim in the north to the Village of Alix in the south, and east from the Town of Wainwright to the Village of Thorsby in the west, spanning 13 Alberta Municipal Districts and Counties. In the 1940’s, there was no distribution system available to bring essential electricity to rural Albertans. The big corporate utility companies refused to do so as they did not believe it was financially viable. So progressive and determined farmers formed cooperatives, known as Rural Electrification Associations, and worked together to build their own rural distribution system – a cooperative effort that was a vital contributor to the economic growth of Alberta’s rural economy. Grounded in that proud tradition of community co-operation, Battle River Power Coop is an innovative electricity distributor continually demonstrating flexibility in meeting the needs of our members by implementing new technology and developing member and community oriented programs. Following key cooperative principles, the Board of Directors for the Battle River Cooperative REA are elected by the membership at the Annual General Meeting held locally within our rural service area. These Directors are members who live and work in the communities we serve and truly understand the needs of the members they represent.