Who actually profits from your power bill?
40,000+ Albertans choose member-owned power.
Six power co-ops across Alberta delivering fair, reliable electricity — while keeping dollars local instead of paying distant shareholders.
While investor-owned utilities make promises, we show results.
Three proven advantages corporate utilities can’t match – because their shareholders won’t let them.
Proven excellence you can measure.
When you’re accountable to members instead of shareholders, you make different choices. One co-op: 15 years without rate increases. Another: ranked among Canada’s top utilities despite rural challenges. All six co-ops: instant mutual aid response when disasters strike. That’s what happens when excellence matters more than dividends.
Your dollars, your community.
Every dollar a corporate utility extracts as profit is a dollar that leaves your community. We flip that equation. Local jobs, emergency response, scholarships, infrastructure – your power bill doesn’t fund executive bonuses. It builds the place you call home.
Co-operation beats corporation.
When wildfire threatened in 2023, our mutual aid network had power line technicians on-site within hours. Not because quarterly earnings demanded it. Because neighbours help neighbors. Six co-ops sharing everything means you’re never facing challenges alone.
Two models. One works better.
Investor Owned Utility Model
- Shareholders demand quarterly profit growth
- Executives earn bonuses tied to revenue extraction
- Decisions made in distant boardrooms
- Community investment = marketing expense
- Rate increases = earnings growth strategy
- Your role: Captive customer
Member Owned Model
- Members demand value and reliability
- Success measured by community benefit
- Decisions made by you and your co-op members
- Community investment = core mission
- Rate stability = proof of efficiency
- Your role: Owner with a vote
Bottom Line:
Both models deliver electricity.
Only one delivers it without extracting maximum profit from your community.
Six co-ops. One mission. Fair power.
The member-owned utility network setting standards that benefit all Albertans.
Discover your local power co-op and see what happens when utilities answer to communities instead of investors. Click any region to explore co-operative ownership in action.
6 United
Co-operatives
40,000+ members across Alberta
70+ years of cooperative excellence
Instant mutual aid response
We keep power fair for everyone (even if you're not a member).
Here’s something corporate utilities don’t want you to know: Alberta Power Co-ops sets the pricing benchmark that prevents all utilities from overcharging. When we demonstrate transparent pricing and superior service, every Albertan benefits – because suddenly, investor-owned utilities have to compete with proof, not just marketing.
Our member-owned model isn’t just good for our communities. It’s the competitive pressure that keeps all utility companies honest. That’s market regulation without government intervention – and it’s exactly why some corporate utilities would prefer Power Co-ops didn’t exist.
Ready to stop funding corporate profit?
Join 40,000+ Albertans who discovered that utilities can deliver excellence without exploitation. Member ownership isn’t radical – it’s practical. And it’s been working in Alberta for over 70 years.