Flathead Electric Co-op 101
Our Mission
The mission of Flathead Electric, a not-for-profit, member-owned cooperative, is to provide competitive and reliable services, achieve the highest level of member satisfaction, and enhance the quality of life in our communities.
We are driven by community, innovation, and reliability.
Our Co-op By the Numbers
- Founded in 1937
- Montana’s largest electric cooperative and second-largest energy utility (2025)
- 88% carbon-free fuel mix, of which over 73% is renewable, carbon-free hydropower (2024 – updated annually in June, i.e., 2025 data will be available in June 2026)
- 90/100 American Customer Satisfaction Index score (2025 – updated in odd years)
- 60,162 members in the Kalispell, Libby, and Cooke City areas (2026)
- 77,772 meters (2025)
- 1,346 new services energized (2025)
- 441.9 MW peak load (all-time record – January 2024)
- 198.1 aMW average load (2025)
- 44 F average temperature (2025)
- 3,001.27 square mile service area (2025)
- that’s about the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined
- 5,325.12 total miles of energized line, over 60% of which is underground (2025)
- That’s enough line to reach from Kalispell to Tokyo, or to stretch from coast to coast in the United States and back again
- 2,087.45 miles of overhead lines
- That’s enough line to reach from Kalispell to Anchorage, Alaska
- 3,237.67 miles of underground lines
- It’s 3,500 miles from Kalispell to Cancun, Mexico
- 2,087.45 miles of overhead lines
- That’s enough line to reach from Kalispell to Tokyo, or to stretch from coast to coast in the United States and back again
- 171 employees (2026)
- 9 Trustees
- $3.7M capital credits retired (2025)
- $69,860,748 lifetime capital credits retired (2025)
- $5.5M+ in member giving to Roundup for Safety program since 1997 (2025)
- $275,688 in member giving (2025)
- 1,593 projects completed since 1997 (2025)
Helpful Pages on Flathead Electric Cooperative’s Website
On our Outage Center page, you can find the most current information about power outages anywhere in our service area, and sign up for text message updates, too! This page also has lots of helpful information about how to report outages and what to do during an outage. Remember: never, ever touch a downed power line – if you want to survive, assume it’s live.
On our Who We Are page, you’ll find links to learn more about our Co-op’s business model and history, along with information about our fuel mix, our concern for community, and the issues we’re interested in. Are you looking for a statistic, a photo, or B-roll? Want to set up an interview or ask a follow-up question? It’s all there.
Missed our latest monthly newsletter? You can read the current issue of Light Reading Newsletter – Flathead Electric Cooperative here, and past issues, too.