Big Rivers At a Glance

Big Rivers is an electric generation and transmission cooperative supplying the wholesale power needs of its three member-cooperatives and marketing power to non-member utilities and power markets. These members provide retail electric power and energy to 110,000 industrial, residential and commercial customers in portions of 22 western Kentucky counties.

Incorporated	June 1961
Generating capacity owned	1,459 MW
Power capacity available	1,854 MW
Employees	105
Member cooperatives	3
Counties reached	22
Member consumers served	110,000
Miles of transmission line	1,232
Energy sales	5,250,342 MWh
Energy revenue	$ 190.8 million
Net margins	$ 34.5 million
Average member cost	$ 34.11 per MWh

As of December 31, 2006