Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative

Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Hamburg, Arkansas, with a district office in Lake Village, Arkansas.

The Cooperative was organized in February, 1941 and the first power lines were energized in March 1944.

The Cooperative serves portions of three counties in the state of Arkansas and one parish in Louisiana, in a territory generally located in southeastern Arkansas near the Mississippi River:

Arkansas: Ashley, Chicot, and Drew
Louisiana: Morehouse

As of September 2005, the Cooperative has more than 1,594 miles of power lines, and services 4,908 members.

External links

Ashley-Chicot Electric Cooperative

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Purchasing	Retailers' cooperative

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Banking	Credit union Mutual savings bank Savings and loan association Building society

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Topics

Identity	Rochdale Principles ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity

Political and economic theories	Co-operative economics Cooperative federalism Distributism Economic democracy Mutualism Neo-Capitalism Owenism Social enterprise Socialism Socially responsible investing Solidarity economy

Key theorists	G. D. H. Cole Charles Gide David Griffiths William King Robert Owen Friedrich Raiffeisen David Schweickart Rochdale Pioneers Beatrice Webb

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Organizations	List of cooperatives Worker Energy Federations International Co-operative Alliance Co-operative Party

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