Iowa Lakes Electric Co-Op

Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative

...is a consumer-owned electric cooperative that serves approxmiately 12,400 farms, homes, businesses and industries in northwest Iowa - the heart of America's breadbasket.

With headquarters in Estherville, Iowa, our member-owners live and work in Iowa's fertile fields, in our growing industrial and technical parks, and in our vital hometown communities. Our member-owners feed the world and they supply the lifeblood of rural electric cooperatives like ours.

The Power that Supplies the Heartland

...hydro-electric dams along the Missouri River produce low-cost electricity; and coal-fired plants, like the Neal #4 Generation Station by Sioux City, Iowa, are fueled by low-sulfur western lignite. Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative (ILEC) draws power across nearly 5,000 miles of line...nourishing approximately 12,400 electric meters with nearly 651 million kilowatt hours per year.

The consolidation of Iowa's Buena Vista County REC, Pocahontas County REC, and D.E.K. REC in 1986 and the merger of Cherokee County REC in 1989 to form Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative has created a financially sound, operationally efficient and regionally competitive cooperative that has been challenged by change and has succeeded with strength.

Commercial and Industrial Incentives