The relationship between Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative (WREC) and Seminole Electric Cooperative is part of a Cooperative ownership structure common in the electric utility industry. While WREC is owned by its individual Members, Seminole Electric Cooperative is owned collectively by its Member Cooperatives, including WREC. This means that WREC, along with eight other Member Cooperatives, collectively own Seminole Electric Cooperative. Overall, this relationship signifies a collaborative effort among electric Cooperatives to provide electricity to their members in an efficient and sustainable manner,

WREC and our wholesale power provider , Seminole Electric Cooperative (Seminole), are committed to the environment. Seminole is one of the largest generation and transmission (G&T) electric cooperatives in the country.  Seminole’s purpose is to provide reliable, competitively priced, wholesale electric power to its nine Member distribution electric cooperatives.

Seminole Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Tampa, is a not-for-profit Cooperative returning margins in the form of Capital Credits to your Cooperative.  Seminole is owned by WREC and eight other electric distribution Cooperatives located from the Georgia border to the Everglades.  These distribution Cooperatives provide power to more than 1.9 million Members in 42 of Florida’s 67 counties.