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Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative Inc. (CHELCO) is one of 16 cooperatives in the state of Florida. CHELCO is the
sixth largest and serves slightly more than 40,000 residential and commercial accounts in Walton and Okaloosa counties and portions of Holmes and Santa Rosa counties. CHELCO has about 3,385 miles of line.
As a cooperative, CHELCO is dedicated to providing its members with safe, reliable and cost-effective power. We strive to offer a variety of services and excellent member service.
CHELCO’s history is much the same as most of the country’s approximately 1,000 electric cooperatives. In the 1930s, most cities across the country had electricity, but rural Americans remained in the dark. Building electric distribution lines to serve rural homes and farms was not economical.
CHELCO was started in 1941 when the people of Northwest Florida decided to band together to form a member-owned, not-for-profit utility to bring lights to the sparsely populated areas in Florida’s panhandle.
Later that same year, CHELCO and 10 other electric cooperatives met and formed Alabama Electric Cooperative, a generation and transmission cooperative in Andalusia, Ala., established to generate the electricity needed by its member co-ops.
If your power goes out, call 800-342-0990 to reach CHELCO’s Dispatch Office.
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