Pay My Bill Report an Outage Become a Member My Service Member Resources Engineering/Operations About Us Contact What is a Cooperative? Cooperatives are businesses owned and controlled by the people who use them. Cooperatives differ from other businesses because they are member-owned and operate for the benefit of members, rather than earn profits for investors. Like other businesses, most cooperatives are incorporated under State law. In the United States there are more than 40,000 cooperatives that serve one out of every four citizens. The cooperative business structure provides farm products and supplies, insurance, credit, health care, housing, telephone, electrical, transportation, child care, and utility services. Members use cooperatives to buy food, consumer goods, and business and production supplies. Farmers use cooperatives to market and process crops and livestock, purchase supplies and services, and to provide credit for their operations. Cooperatives Are Organized To: 1. Improve bargaining power 2. Reduce costs 3. Obtain products or services otherwise unavailable 4. Expand new and existing market opportunities 5. Improve product or service quality 6. Increase income Sand Mountain Electric Co-op. 402 Main Street West P.O. Box 277 Rainsville, AL 35986 This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer Esta institución es un proveedor de services con igualdad de oportunidades My Service Member Resources Engineering/Operations About Us Contact Copyright © 2021 Sand Mountain Electric Co-Op. All rights reserved.

Pay My Bill Report an Outage Become a Member My Service Member Resources Engineering/Operations About Us Contact Youth Tour Day SMEC has sent two students from its service area on an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. every year since 1969. Winners are selected during the annual Youth Tour Day competition, which is held at the co-op office each spring. School sponsors select two juniors from each high school in the co-op service area to compete. Four winners are selected to attend the Montgomery Youth Tour and two of those four win a trip to Washington, D.C. as part of that tour. Both trips are expense free for the winning students. Sand Mountain Electric Co-op. 402 Main Street West P.O. Box 277 Rainsville, AL 35986 This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer Esta institución es un proveedor de services con igualdad de oportunidades My Service Member Resources Engineering/Operations About Us Contact Copyright © 2021 Sand Mountain Electric Co-Op. All rights reserved.