Crawford Electric

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Crawford Electric is a member-owned, nonprofit rural electric cooperative with a five-county service area in east-central Missouri. Its facilities are based in Bourbon, Mo. Crawford Electric was established to provide reliable, affordable electric service to rural areas that had been deemed 'unprofitable' by the investor-owned utilities. Its member-owners have control over the assets and operations of the co-op through voting and electing members to serve on the cooperative's board of directors. Electric cooperatives nationwide represent an industry with assets of more than $70 billion, employing more than 60,000 people in the United States, own and operate more than