Benefits of Membership

As a customer of Southeastern Electric Cooperative, you are also a member of our electric cooperative. As a member of our co-op, you enjoy the benefits of membership:

reliable, cost-based electric service; we do not seek to make a profit
access to energy-related information, products and services
capital credits, a share in the cooperative’s margins (surplus revenues)
attending and voting at the Southeastern Annual Meeting
representation by an ten-member Board of Directors
member bus tours to electric generation and transmission facilities
youth scholarships and tours to Washington, D.C.

Southeastern provides retail electricity and energy-related products and services to over 13,000 members, serving rural and urban areas in southeastern South Dakota. This membership includes approximately 3,200 members in southeastern and southwestern Sioux Falls. Our members range in size from residences and family farms to hospitals and ethanol plants.