Navarro County Electric Cooperative

Navarro County Electric Cooperative is a non-profit electric utility company serving portions of Ellis, Navarro, Freestone, Hill and  Limestone Counties in Texas.  It was established in the 1930's to bring electric service to areas which were not being served by  investor owned utilities at the time.  If you receive electric service from us, you are an owner of the Cooperative.  We are governed  by a board of locally elected members - members just like yourself with an interest in a reliable, customer-focused utility. At NCEC,  we are committed to the philosophy of working hard to keep your rates low, providing reliable service, and returning the profits  back to you.

Our service area boundaries were set by the Texas Public Utilities Commission in the 1970s. We are certificated to serve communities southeast of Dallas such as the Waxahachie area, Corsicana area, Fairfield, Palmer, Rice, Ennis area, Rockett,  Trumbull, Telico, Chatfield, Reagor Springs, Barry, Emmett, Purdon, Streetman, Kirvin, Pursley, Frost, Avalon, and others, as well  as the Richland-Chambers Lake area. »Contact us to see if service is available in your area

History of Navarro County Electric Cooperative

In the early 1920s farm leaders began pressing for rural electrification. If existing investor-owned power companies wouldn't help the  farmers, the farmers would help themselves. They began to organize their own electric cooperatives. Farmers in Navarro County  started to work in 1936 to organize a cooperative to serve their needs. The first recorded meeting of the incorporators and directors of  the Navarro County Electric Cooperative, Inc. was held in Beauford Jester's office in the Jester Building in the city of Corsicana, Tx,
Navarro County at 2:30 pm on the 26th day of November 1937.

The first official meeting consisted of election of officers and board members. The board members
present at this meeting were E. P. Estes, elected president, L. I. Griffin, elected secretary, and the
remaining board members were William J. Bain, E. B. Dawson, Earl M. Dawson, Burney Moore, and
Robert P. Garret. The Chairman, E. P. Estes, reported at this meeting that the original copy of the
Articles of Incorporation were filed on November 19th, 1937 in the office of the Secretary of State,
and that under the date of November 19th, 1937, the Secretary of State had issued a Certificate of
Incorporation to the incorporators.

Beauford H. Jester was appointed by the board to be counsel of the new Corporation. The
Cooperative was organized to be a private, non-profit enterprise, locally owned and managed, and
incorporated under state law, to be controlled by the members it serves, with each member having
one vote in the affairs of the Cooperative. The cooperative membership elects a director for a
designated area to be their representative on the board.
The first step after the organization was to secure funds to build electric distribution lines in the rural areas. The funds were provided
under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, which established the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) as a lending agency for the
federal government. The first request for funds was $100,000 to build 92 miles of distribution line in Navarro and Hill counties.

The Cooperative's first office was in the Jester Building on West 5th Avenue in Corsicana. The first building was at 214 N. Main Street.
Later, the Cooperative built a new office-warehouse facility at 319 West 7th in 1950. In 1975, the Cooperative moved to its present
location on west Highway 22 on the western edge of Corsicana. From this humble beginning the Cooperative has grown to over 2950
miles of line (in 2015) serving over 15,448 meters in Navarro, Hill, Ellis, Freestone, and Limestone counties.