West Oregon Electric Cooperative

What West Oregon Electric Cooperative does

West Oregon Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric distribution utility headquartered in Vernonia, Oregon, operating since 1944 and serving homes and businesses in its rural Oregon service territory. Its stated service offerings extend beyond commodity electricity delivery to include electric vehicles, energy-assistance programs, and construction services, indicating an effort to broaden member-facing products into adjacent energy and infrastructure categories. The entity operates with a small staff of 11-50 employees consistent with a small rural cooperative, and its website (westoregon.org) is the primary public channel referenced in the source data. The available source content is limited to firmographic identifiers and a brief service-line summary; detailed financials, governance structure, management team, and operating metrics are not present in the supplied data, so this description is constrained to what is directly supported. The cooperative's revenue mechanics, consistent with the electric cooperative model, would typically derive from member tariffs on metered electricity consumption plus any fees from ancillary services, but no pricing, billing, or member-count data is disclosed in the input.

Name

West Oregon Electric Cooperative

Legal name

West Oregon Electric Cooperative

Website

https://westoregon.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1944

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

West Oregon Electric Cooperative is a rural Oregon electric cooperative, founded in 1944, that distributes electricity to residential and business members in and around Vernonia, and also offers electric vehicles, energy-assistance, and construction services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Electric Utility Services

NAICS

Electric Power Distribution (221122), Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution (2211), Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution (22112), Utilities (22)

SIC

Electric Services (4911), Electric & Other Services Combined (4931)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Retail Electric Providers / Competitive Distribution Utilities (where applicable) (EUADABAE)

Keywords

• Electric utility services
• Rural electrification
• Cooperative energy
• Residential electricity
• Commercial electricity

Headquarters

HQ city

Vernonia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

West Oregon Electric Cooperative is an electric distribution cooperative that supplies electricity to homes and businesses in its Oregon service territory. It also provides complementary offerings including electric vehicles, energy-assistance programs, and construction services to its member-customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Electricity Service Electricity supply and distribution to residential member-customers within the cooperative's Oregon service territory.
• Commercial Electricity Service
• Electric Vehicle Offerings Electric vehicle offerings made available to member-customers of the cooperative.
• Energy Assistance Programs Energy-assistance programs provided to cooperative members to support affordability of electric service.
• Construction Services Construction services offered by the cooperative, likely tied to line work and member-site electrical needs.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Consumer Power Inc. Oregon-based rural electric distribution cooperative. Closely comparable member-owned distribution co-op serving a similar rural Oregon customer base.
• Central Electric Cooperative (Oregon): Oregon-based rural electric distribution cooperative serving member-owners with electricity and related services. Closely comparable as another small Oregon distribution co-op with overlapping geography and similar member-owned structure.
• Coos-Curry Electric Cooperative: Rural electric cooperative on the southern Oregon coast distributing power to homes and businesses. Directly comparable as a member-owned distribution co-op of similar scale operating in the same state regulatory environment.
• Lane Electric Cooperative: Member-owned electric distribution cooperative serving rural Lane County, Oregon. Directly comparable in cooperative structure, scale, service mix, and regulatory regime to West Oregon Electric Cooperative.
• Blachly-Lane Electric Cooperative: Small rural electric cooperative in western Oregon distributing electricity to member-owners. Highly comparable as a similarly-sized Oregon distribution co-op.
• Oregon Trail Electric Consumers Cooperative: Distribution electric cooperative serving rural eastern Oregon and parts of Idaho. Comparable in cooperative model and rural distribution focus, though serving a different geographic region of Oregon.
• Umatilla Electric Cooperative: Member-owned electric distribution cooperative in northeastern Oregon. Comparable as a rural Oregon distribution co-op of similar scale and structure, though operating in a distinct service territory.

Broad incumbents

• Pacific Power: Investor-owned utility (subsidiary of PacifiCorp) serving Oregon, Washington, and California with electricity generation, transmission, and distribution. Comparable as a major electric utility operating in the same geography, though much larger and investor-owned rather than cooperative.
• Portland General Electric: Investor-owned vertically integrated electric utility serving Oregon. Comparable as an Oregon electric service provider, though significantly larger and operating under a different ownership structure.

Others

• Bonneville Power Administration: Federal power marketing administration that wholesales hydroelectric power to utilities across the Pacific Northwest, including Oregon co-ops like West Oregon. Comparable as the upstream wholesale power supplier on which the co-op's cost structure is materially dependent.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WOECooperative
• Facebookfacebook.com/westoregonelectric

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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