Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc.

What Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc. does

Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc. is a member-owned, non-profit rural electric distribution cooperative founded in 1939 and headquartered in Malta, Idaho. Its core business is electric distribution service and member-focused energy programs delivered to consumer-owners within its designated rural service territory in the western United States. As a rural electric cooperative, it operates under the framework typical of federally recognized distribution utilities — owning and maintaining the local distribution grid and serving agricultural, residential, and small-commercial loads on a non-profit, member-rate basis.

Beyond its traditional consumer-member distribution activity, the cooperative has engaged in commercial industrial-customer work, most notably a 2026 strategic partnership with Western Exploration Inc. to conduct a grid power feasibility study for Western Exploration's 100%-owned Doby George gold project in Nevada, with results targeted for Q4 2026. This positioning suggests the cooperative is leveraging its local grid infrastructure expertise to support power-infrastructure planning for remote mining and resource-extraction projects.

The business model is that of a traditional rural electric cooperative: member-owned, rate-regulated electric distribution with revenue derived from consumer-member electricity tariffs and member-focused energy programs. No publicly disclosed pricing models, management team, headcount, or financial figures are available in the input data. The company is private, has no disclosed subsidiaries or parent entities, and has no recorded M&A, funding, or leadership-change activity.

Name

Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc.

Legal name

Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc.

Website

https://rrelectric.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1939

Short description

Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative Inc. is a member-owned, non-profit rural electric distribution utility founded in 1939 in Malta, Idaho, serving consumer-members with electricity and energy programs while also conducting grid power feasibility work for mining operators.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Rural Electric Distribution Services

NAICS

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

SIC

Electric Services (4911)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

Siting, Routing & Permitting Support for T&D Projects (Planning-stage) (EUADAGAK)

Keywords

• Rural electric distribution
• Electric cooperative services
• Grid power feasibility
• Member energy programs
• Utility infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Malta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative provides electric distribution service and member-focused energy programs to consumer-owners in its rural service territory. The cooperative also conducts grid power feasibility assessment services for industrial customers, currently demonstrated through a grid power feasibility study supporting pre-feasibility and permitting requirements for Western Exploration's Doby George gold project in Nevada.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Electric Distribution Service
• Member-Focused Energy Programs
• Grid Power Feasibility Study

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Western Exploration Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Raft River Rural Electric Co-operative is conducting a grid power feasibility study for Western Exploration's 100%-owned Doby George gold project in Nevada. The study is on track for Q4 2026 results and supports the project's pre-feasibility and permitting requirements. This partnership enables Western Exploration to assess grid power infrastructure needs for its mining development.

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Idaho Power Company: Investor-owned electric utility serving southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, including rural and mining regions overlapping Raft River's territory. Comparable as a vertically integrated electric distribution utility with industrial mining customers, but with vastly larger scale and service breadth.
• Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp): Investor-owned electric utility serving Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming with significant mining-load exposure. Comparable as a regional T&D utility in the rural western US that serves resource-extraction customers, though it is much larger and serves multiple states.
• NV Energy: Investor-owned electric utility serving Nevada, including major mining customers in the same region as the Doby George project. Comparable as a T&D utility competing for large mining loads in Nevada, though serving a much broader urban-industrial customer base.

Direct peers

• Basin Electric Power Cooperative: Generation and transmission cooperative serving member rural electric co-ops across the western US. Comparable as a fellow cooperative-owned electric utility in the western US with similar governance and member-focused economics, though operating at a much larger scale.
• Lower Valley Energy: Rural electric cooperative serving the Teton Valley area of Idaho and Wyoming. Direct comparable small-cooperative distribution utility with similar rural service territory profile in the inland Northwest.
• Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association: Wholesale electric generation and transmission cooperative supplying member distribution co-ops across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and beyond. Directly comparable cooperative business model serving rural distribution members in the western US.
• Minidoka Power Project / Raft River-style Idaho co-ops (e.g., Fall River Rural Electric Cooperative): Neighboring Idaho rural electric cooperative serving eastern Idaho. Closest direct peer in size, geography, and cooperative structure to Raft River Rural Electric Cooperative.

Regional players

• Lincoln County Power District No. 1 (Nevada): Rural electric distribution utility in eastern Nevada serving mining and ranching loads. Comparable as a rural distribution co-op with mining customer exposure, operating in the same Nevada geography where Western Exploration's Doby George project is located.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/raft-river-rural-electric-cooperative-inc.

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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