2023 Legislative Session
Empowering The Rural West
Democratic Member Control
These founding principles still hold true today, over 70 years later. Our members chose to band together to bring electricity to rural areas where there was no financial incentive for large investor-owned utilities to build. They all pitched in to pay for infrastructure across rugged terrain and share risks that no rural electric utility could bear on its own. There are numerous reasons the cooperative G&T model lives on today.
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Colorado
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Nebraska
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New Mexico
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Wyoming
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70+ YEARS
Generating reliable energy since 1952
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$10 M
Patronage capital returned to members in 2022
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+500MW
Solar being added to our system by 2025
Reliable, Affordable, Responsible Energy
That was the thought behind Tri-State Generation and Transmission when we were formed more than 70 years ago, and that remains the idea today. Our members chose to band together to bring electricity to rural areas where there was no financial incentive for large investor-owned utilities to build. They all pitched in to pay for infrastructure across rugged terrain and share risks that no rural electric utility could bear on its own. There are numerous reasons the cooperative G&T model lives on today.
Our Members
We are a not-for-profit wholesale electric supplier to our members – electric distribution cooperatives and public power districts. Together, we provide power to nearly a million electric consumers across the West. Our footprint is 20% larger than the state of California.
Oct 18, 2023
U.S. Department of Energy selects Tri-State for $26.8 million in federal funding to increase power grid resilience and reliability across four western states
Sep 13, 2023
Tri-State submits Letter of Interest to pursue USDA New ERA Program for electric cooperatives
Aug 30, 2023