Battle River Power Coop

battle river power coop has been providing safe, reliable power distribution to rural alberta for 69 years and our sole mission is to provide the best and most cost-effective electric power service to our 8,500 member-owners while operating under sound cooperative business principles. our rural alberta service area stretches from the town of bruderheim in the north to the village of alix in the south, and east from the town of wainwright to the village of thorsby in the west, spanning 13 alberta municipal districts and counties. in the 1940’s, there was no distribution system available to bring essential electricity to rural albertans. the big corporate utility companies refused to do so as they did not believe it was financially viable. so progressive and determined farmers formed cooperatives, known as rural electrification associations, and worked together to build their own rural distribution system – a cooperative effort that was a vital contributor to the economic growth of alb