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Owned By Those We Serve
When your family or business signed up for Callaway Electric’s (CEC) service, you became a member-owner of an electric cooperative rather than simply another utility customer. Callaway Electric is one of 40 rural electric cooperatives that serve more than half a million Missouri families.
As a CEC member, you share ownership in electric lines, power plants and substations. Our power supplier, Associated Electric Cooperative, provides power to 6 transmission cooperatives which serve 51 distribution cooperatives in Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma.
As members, the CEC board understands the importance of providing safe and reliable electricity to communities throughout rural Callaway and southern Montgomery Counties.
Being member led and community focused means your best interests come first in every decision that is made by cooperative leaders.
Because we’re locally owned by the members we serve, CEC is governed by an elected board of directors who are also member-owners of the cooperative. Callaway Electric’s board members are elected by our membership to represent our 13,000 members’ interests when it comes to setting policies or making decisions on issues that impact the co-op and our members.
Their input and guidance are essential as the cooperative keeps the lights on today and works to anticipate and meet our members’ long-term future energy needs.
Our Annual Membership Meeting
At this meeting you can vote for directors, consider bylaw proposals, hear reports from the board officers and manager, and visit with the cooperative's board and staff about any questions or concerns you may have. The official meeting notice is typically mailed to all CEC members in mid-January.
