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MEMBERS’ ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION A cooperative’s consumer-members provide the working capital for operation through payment for goods or services. Because electric co-ops are not-for-profit, they provide service at cost, and any unused capital is returned to consumer-members in the form of capital credits, also called patronage capital. By returning capital credits to members, co-ops put dollars back into the local community.
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