Big Rivers At a Glance

Big Rivers Electric Corporation is a member-owned, not-for-profit, generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) headquartered in Henderson, Kentucky. We are owned by three member cooperatives that distribute retail electric power to more than 111,000 homes, farms, businesses and industries across 22 counties in western Kentucky.

Big Rivers supplies the wholesale power needs of the member cooperatives and markets surplus power to non-member utilities and power markets.

Incorporated

June 1961

Generating capacity owned

1,444 MW

Power capacity available

1,834 MW

Employees

about 600

Member cooperatives

3

Counties reached

22

Member consumers served

111,000

Miles of transmission line

1,262

Energy sales

7,790,961 MWh

Energy revenue

$ 326.7 million

Net margins

$ 531.3 million

Equity

$ 379.4 million

Wholesale member average

$ 35.68 per MWh

As of December 31, 2009