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In May, the Board of Directors of East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative voted to retire $565,413 in patronage back to its members. These margin...

As an electric cooperative, our top priority is always to provide reliable, affordable energy to you, the members we serve. Because we are a cooperati...

Contributing to RECare is one easy way to help others! The program distributes funds to low-income energy consumers in Benton and Buchanan Counties vi...

ECI REC’s Heat Plus rate will take effect October 1, 2020, and is available through May 31, 2021. Even with lower gas prices, our Heat Plus rate of .0...

The 2020-2021 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps qualifying low-income Iowa homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their pr...

Today more than ever, what is happening in Des Moines, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., can impact your cost of power and its reliability. Through politica...

We are putting our Community Reinvestment Fund dollars to work! At the August meeting, the ECI REC Board of Directors voted to use the Cooperative’s C...

Jennifer Schmitz was promoted to manager of the Finance team effective September 1. She is in her twenty-fifth year at ECI REC and has been serving as...