Ravalli Electric Co-Op

What Ravalli Electric Co-Op does

Ravalli Electric Co-Op is a member-owned rural electric distribution cooperative headquartered in Victor, Montana, founded in 1936 to deliver electricity and related power services to households, farms, ranches, and small businesses within its defined Ravalli County service territory. The cooperative operates the local distribution grid, owning and maintaining the poles, lines, substations, and metering assets that deliver power purchased at wholesale to end members, and is staffed by 11-50 employees. Its operating model is the standard U.S. rural electric cooperative structure: cost-based rates passed through to members, governance by an elected board of directors, and an exclusive service-area franchise granted under state and federal (RUS) regulation.

The business model is a regulated rate-base utility: revenue is generated almost entirely from kWh sales to member-customers within the certified territory, with rates set on a cost-of-service basis rather than market pricing. No technology stack, product line, software offering, app, API, or proprietary digital platform is disclosed in the available data; the website returned only a verification/loading page, and the company has no disclosed partnerships, M&A history, subsidiaries, investors, or non-utility business lines. There is no indication of generation assets, broadband, or energy-services subsidiaries, suggesting the cooperative is a pure-play wires-and-meters distribution utility.

Name

Ravalli Electric Co-Op

Website

https://ravallielectric.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1936

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ravalli Electric Co-Op is a member-owned rural electric distribution cooperative founded in 1936 and headquartered in Victor, Montana, delivering electricity and power services to residential, agricultural, and small-commercial customers across its Montana service territory.

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), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900)

akta.pro primary industry

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

Keywords

• Electric cooperative
• Electricity distribution
• Rural electric utility
• Power services
• Member-owned utility

Headquarters

HQ city

Victor

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Ravalli Electric Co-Op is an electric cooperative that distributes electricity and provides reliable energy and power services to its community members in the Victor, Montana area. Founded in 1936, it serves residential and commercial accounts within its defined electric service territory.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electricity distribution service Core electric utility service delivering electricity to residential and commercial members within the cooperative's service territory in and around Victor, Montana.
• Community energy and power services Reliable energy and power services provided to the community, supporting local residential and commercial electricity needs.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Broad incumbents

• NorthWestern Energy: Investor-owned regulated utility serving Montana and the surrounding region with generation, transmission, and distribution; an established incumbent operating in the same geography with overlapping distribution capabilities, though it competes rather than mirrors the co-op model.

Direct peers

• Lincoln Electric Cooperative: Member-owned electric distribution cooperative; shares the same rural co-op utility business model, regulatory treatment, and revenue drivers as Ravalli Electric Co-Op.
• Missoula Electric Cooperative: Montana-based rural electric cooperative providing distribution service in western Montana; comparable in member-owned structure, service territory type, and customer mix to Ravalli Electric Co-Op.
• Flathead Electric Cooperative: A neighboring Montana rural electric distribution cooperative serving residential, commercial, and irrigation members across northwest Montana — a near-perfect structural peer to Ravalli Electric Co-Op.
• Yellowstone Valley Electric Cooperative: Member-owned rural electric distribution cooperative operating in Montana; highly comparable to Ravalli in service territory type, customer composition, and regulated distribution economics.
• Beartooth Electric Cooperative: Montana/South-central rural electric cooperative providing distribution service to agricultural and residential members — analogous to Ravalli in scale, customer profile, and operating geography.
• Marias River Electric Cooperative: Montana rural electric distribution cooperative serving members across a defined agricultural/rural service territory — closely comparable to Ravalli Electric Co-Op in customer base, scale, and operating model.

Others

• Sentinel Energy Services: Adjacent services provider to small electric co-ops (energy management, member services, distributed energy programs) — included as an enabling/ecosystem participant rather than direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ravallielectric
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ravalli-electric-co-op

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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