Tallapoosa River Electric Co-Op

Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative, (TREC), is an electric distribution cooperative serving parts of Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Lee, Russell, and Barbour Counties of East Central Alabama. TREC provides dependable, competitively priced electricity, free energy audits, free residential power quality audits, and free HVAC design to its members.

TREC is a not-for-profit, member-owned and democratically run rural electric distribution utility. Each year, member-owners have the right to vote for representatives to serve on the board of trustees, and these trustees set policies to govern the operations of the cooperative. It is the mission of the Cooperative to provide reliable, quality electrical service to the membership at the most affordable price.

As a first priority, TREC’s employees are committed to service excellence to our member-owners. It is referred to in our motto as: “providing reliable consumer service.” Our business values are reflected in our commitments to integrity, innovation, accountability, community service and fairness. We think you will find our service some of the best you have ever experienced.

Established in 1939, TREC is headquartered at 15163 U.S. Hwy 431 S., LaFayette, Alabama.

1. If your power goes out… Check your breakers inside and outside. 
2. Check with your neighbors to see if their power is out as well.
3. Call TREC (877) 456-8732.
4. If you experience an outage outside of our regular business hours, on weekends or holidays, call our toll-free number (1-877-456-8732) to reach our outage reporting system. We have an automated outage system in place with 48 telephone lines that is used in case of a large outage. This automated outage system allows us to take more calls at one time, therefore helping you to avoid getting a busy signal in these instances. The automated outage reporting system uses Caller ID to identify you through your telephone number. For this system to work properly, you have to call the outage in from a phone number that is on your account. Our dispatcher can then use this information to send crews to work on your outage