Fedecoba

What Fedecoba does

FEDECOBA (Federación de Cooperativas de Electricidad y Servicios Públicos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Limitada) is a non-profit, second-degree cooperative federation founded on August 19, 1978, and headquartered at Rauch N° 729, Azul, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is governed under Argentine Law 20.337 and owned and controlled democratically by its 135 member cooperatives (118 full members + 17 affiliates), which together serve approximately 450,000 electricity users and 140,000 water users across Buenos Aires Province. Member cooperatives distribute 2,718 GWh/year (40% of the province's 6,794 GWh/year) and generate aggregate annual net electricity billing of approximately $943 million. FEDECOBA represents 120 of the 199 electric cooperatives in the province — a 60% market share — and operates through three geographic zones (Atlántica, Norte, Sur).

The federation delivers a comprehensive suite of support services to its members rather than selling products to end customers. Core offerings include institutional advisory services across legal, technical, labor, economic, tax, regulatory, and cooperative-education domains; an annual "Saber Más" training cycle with leadership, technical, and update tracks; the annual Expo Técnica Cooperativa; the Concurso Escolar Cooperativo Provincial (held annually since 1991); the bimonthly Identidad Cooperativa magazine; approximately 250 informative circulars per year; and formal representation before OCEBA, ENACOM, INAES, and provincial bodies. The Centro Integral Cooperativo (CIC) houses EACOOP, which offers the Diplomatura Superior en Estudios Cooperativos with an optional Public Services specialization. FEDECOBA co-founded COMESA (Sociedad Comercializadora de Energía S.A.) with APEBA for collective energy marketing, holds Class B shares, and maintains SIGCoop system advisory support.

FEDECOBA operates as a coordination and representation entity on a non-traditional revenue model: it does not charge customers directly but is funded through membership-based service arrangements. Its in-house functional team numbers roughly 20-30 staff (a Gerente, technical advisors across electric, water, and telecom domains, legal/labor and accounting advisors, communication staff, and administrative employees), with no proprietary technology platform and no AI/ML capability. The federation is led by President Ariel Guarco, who concurrently chairs the International Co-operative Alliance (ACI) and COOPERAR, anchoring FEDECOBA within the national and global cooperative movement. Geographic scope is exclusively Buenos Aires Province; the federation is a member of the Mesa Coordinadora Interfederativa with peer federations APEBA, CRECES, FACE, and FICE, and participates in ALCECOOP and REDECOOP.

Name

Fedecoba

Legal name

Federación de Cooperativas de Electricidad y Servicios Públicos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Limitada

Website

https://fedecoba.com.ar

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Non-profit second-degree cooperative federation in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, providing advisory, training, representation, and collective purchasing services to 135 member electric and public-service cooperatives serving 450,000+ electricity and 140,000+ water users.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cooperative Federation Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Business Associations (81391), Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Electric Services (4911), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Federations/Centrals & Cooperative Banking Networks (2nd-Tier Co-ops) (FSABAEAL)

Keywords

• Cooperative federation services
• Electric cooperative advocacy
• Utility cooperative support
• Public services coordination
• Cooperative training programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Azul

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Federation membership services: FEDECOBA operates as a non-profit cooperative federation (entity of second degree) that provides representation, advisory services, training, and collective purchasing power to member cooperatives. The federation does not operate on a traditional revenue model but rather serves as a coordination and support entity for its associated cooperatives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

FEDECOBA is a non-profit second-degree cooperative federation that provides representation, institutional advisory, training, and coordination services to 135 member electric and public-service cooperatives in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Its offerings include legal/technical/labor/tax/regulatory advisory, the annual "Saber Más" training cycle, the EACOOP higher-education diploma in cooperative studies, the bimonthly "Identidad Cooperativa" magazine, group purchasing arrangements, energy commercialization through COMESA, and advocacy before provincial and national regulatory bodies.

Product overview

FEDECOBA is a federation of electric and public service cooperatives serving the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The organization provides a comprehensive suite of services to its 118 full member cooperatives and 17 associate cooperatives (totaling 135 entities) serving approximately 450,000 electricity users and 140,000 water service users. Its core offerings include institutional advisory services (legal, technical, labor, economic, tax, regulatory), an annual training cycle called 'Saber Más' (with leadership, technical, and update tracks), the annual Cooperative School Competition (Concurso Escolar) since 1991, the bimonthly 'Identidad Cooperativa' magazine, and representation before government bodies. The Centro Integral Cooperativo (CIC) houses the EACOOP training school offering the Diplomatura Superior en Estudios Cooperativos. FEDECOBA operates the web portal www.fedecoba.com.ar, issues approximately 250 circulars annually, organizes zonal cooperative meetings, publishes the 'Mercado Cooperativo' magazine, participates in energy marketing through COMESA, and maintains a cooperative directory. The organization represents approximately 60% of the cooperative electric market in Buenos Aires Province, with 120 of 199 electric cooperatives affiliated.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asesoramiento Integral (Legal, Técnico, Laboral, Económico, Impositivo, Regulatorio)

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% market share of electric cooperatives in Buenos Aires Province
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• COOPERAR (Confederación Cooperativa de la República Argentina Ltda.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA is associated with COOPERAR, the national confederation of cooperatives. COOPERAR is one of the three major cooperative confederations in Argentina (along with CONINAGRO and CECOVIRA) representing the cooperative movement at the national level. Ariel Guarco, president of FEDECOBA, also serves as president of COOPERAR.
• COMESA (Comercializadora de Energía S.A.)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA co-founded COMESA together with APEBA. FEDECOBA holds Class 'B' shares in the company. COMESA is a commercial energy company serving the cooperative sector.
• ALCECOOP (Asociación Latinoamericana de Centros de Educación Cooperativa)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA is associated with ALCECOOP, a Latin American association of cooperative education centers.
• REDECOOP (Red Cooperativa del Centro Bonaerense)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA participates in REDECOOP, a cooperative network focused on the central region of Buenos Aires Province.
• INTERCOOP Editora Cooperativa Ltda.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA is associated with INTERCOOP Editora Cooperativa Ltda., a cooperative publishing house. Together they launched the 'Plantemos Bandera' campaign for the International Year of Cooperatives 2025.
• MESA COORDINADORA INTERFEDERATIVA DE COOPERATIVAS ELECTRICAScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEDECOBA participates in the Inter-federative Coordinating Table of Electric Cooperatives of Buenos Aires Province, together with APEBA, CRECES, FACE, and FICE. This body coordinates positions and actions on matters of common interest for the provincial cooperative sector.
• IPEBA (Instituto Provincial de Acción Cooperativa)coreOthersFEDECOBA maintains representation in the Consejo Provincial Asesor Cooperativo del Área Cooperativa del Ministerio de la Producción de la provincia de Buenos Aires (ex IPAC). This is the provincial government body overseeing cooperative affairs.
• OCEBA (Organismo de Control Eléctrico de la Provincia de Buenos Aires)coreOthersFEDECOBA has representatives in the Commission of Public Services of INAES and the Electrical Regulation and Tariff Compensation Fund Follow-up Commissions of the MIVySP. Also represents member cooperatives in regulatory matters before OCEBA.
• ENACOM (Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones)minorOthersFEDECOBA represents member cooperatives before ENACOM on telecommunications matters.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• COOPERAR (Confederación Cooperativa de la República Argentina): National-level cooperative confederation in Argentina and a strategic partner of FEDECOBA. Broader incumbent: operates one level above FEDECOBA across all cooperative sectors (not only electric/utilities), providing national representation and policy advocacy to its federation members.
• Mondragon Corporation: Spanish federation/cooperative group and a global flagship of the cooperative movement. Broad incumbent: a much larger federation structure with industrial, financial, and retail cooperative members, structurally analogous to FEDECOBA but vastly larger and operating across multiple sectors and geographies.
• NRECA (National Rural Electric Cooperative Association): US national association for rural electric cooperatives. Broad incumbent: comparable in role as a federation providing training, advocacy, and support services to a network of member electric cooperatives, though operating at much larger scale in a different geography.

Regional players

• Desjardins Group: Canadian cooperative financial group organized as a federation of regional caisses. Regional player: comparable as a 2nd-tier cooperative federation with member-owned governance and a focus on serving local communities, but in the financial services sector rather than utilities.
• CFCESCA (Cooperativa de Consumo de Energía Eléctrica de Santa Cruz): Representative of the broader family of Argentine electric cooperative federations and associations outside Buenos Aires. Regional player: comparable in providing representation and services to electric cooperatives in other Argentine provinces, but geographically distinct.

Direct peers

• CRECES: Argentine electric cooperative federation participating in the inter-federative coordinating table. Direct peer: offers comparable services to electric cooperatives in Buenos Aires Province, competing with FEDECOBA for member affiliation and regulatory influence.
• APEBA (Asociación de Prestadores Eléctricos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires): Argentine electric cooperative association representing the remaining non-FEDECOBA electric distributors in Buenos Aires Province. Direct peer: competes for the same member cooperatives and offers overlapping regulatory representation and procurement services to the same provincial market.
• FACE (Federación Argentina de Cooperativas de Electricidad): National federation of electric cooperatives in Argentina. Direct peer: provides similar advisory, training, and regulatory representation services to electric cooperatives, including some of the same Buenos Aires Province co-ops, and sits alongside FEDECOBA in the Mesa Coordinadora Interfederativa.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles17 records

Funding overview

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