Missoula Electric Cooperative

What Missoula Electric Cooperative does

Missoula Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative headquartered in Missoula, Montana, founded in 1936 to provide electricity services to residential and commercial members within a defined service territory. The organization operates as a private, non-IPO entity with a small staff of 11-50 employees and functions under the standard cooperative utility model, distributing electricity rather than generating it at scale. Its business model is the conventional cooperative rate-based model: members pay volumetric or fixed electricity rates, revenues recover operating costs plus a margin that is allocated back to members as capital credits, and capital expenditure is financed through long-term debt. In August 2023, the cooperative received a $9,307,000 award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, consistent with USDA Rural Utilities Service financing for grid infrastructure investment by rural electric cooperatives. The input dataset does not disclose member counts, rate base, generation assets, technology stack, or specific service-area boundaries beyond the Missoula, Montana location, so operational scope and member scale cannot be further specified from the available material.

Name

Missoula Electric Cooperative

Website

https://missoulaelectric.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1936

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Missoula Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric cooperative founded in 1936 that distributes electricity to residential and commercial members in the Missoula, Montana area. It operates a small staff and received USDA infrastructure financing in 2023.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electric Utility Services

NAICS

Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2211), Electric Power Distribution (221122)

SIC

Electric Services (4911)

akta.pro primary industry

Electric Cooperatives (Rural/Member-Owned Utilities) (EUADABAC)

Keywords

• Electric utility services
• Electricity distribution
• Rural electric cooperative
• Residential power supply
• Commercial electricity supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Missoula

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Core offering

Missoula Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric utility cooperative that distributes and supplies electricity to residential and commercial members. Founded in 1936 and operating in Missoula, United States, it delivers power services through cooperative-owned distribution infrastructure to its member consumers.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Electricity Service Electricity distribution and supply service provided to residential member-owners of the cooperative in the Missoula service area.
• Commercial Electricity Service Electricity distribution and supply service provided to commercial member-owners of the cooperative in the Missoula service area.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Flathead Electric Cooperative: Another Montana-based member-owned electric distribution co-op; comparable scale and structure, competing for overlapping talent and capital pools in the same state.
• Pedernales Electric Cooperative: One of the largest distribution electric cooperatives in the U.S., serving residential and commercial members; demonstrates the scale and operating model that a successful rural co-op can achieve.
• Seminole Electric Cooperative: Member-owned generation and transmission cooperative; similar cooperative governance and wholesale-distribution relationships, with comparable regulatory and capex dynamics.
• Ravalli Electric Cooperative: Neighboring Montana rural electric distribution cooperative serving residential and commercial members; nearly identical business model, customer base, and regulatory environment as Missoula Electric.
• Hoosier Energy: Regional generation and transmission cooperative serving member distribution co-ops; comparable wholesale power supply and joint-action model relevant to small distribution co-ops.
• Cobb EMC: Large Georgia-based member-owned distribution electric cooperative; comparable member-driven business model, mixed residential/commercial load, and infrastructure-investment profile.

Broad incumbents

• NorthWestern Energy: Investor-owned utility serving Montana and the broader region; competes for large commercial loads in Missoula and provides a benchmark for regulated utility operations in the same service geography.
• Basin Electric Power Cooperative: Large generation-and-transmission cooperative supplying wholesale power to distribution co-ops like Missoula Electric; a key upstream counterparty and structural benchmark for co-op economics.
• Avista Utilities: Investor-owned electric and gas utility serving parts of Montana and the Inland Northwest; offers overlapping distribution capabilities and similar customer mix in adjacent territory.

Others

• Touchstone Energy Cooperatives: Cooperative alliance and brand network for U.S. electric co-ops; relevant ecosystem participant for shared services, branding, and benchmarking even if not a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/mslaelectric

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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