Sangre de Cristo Electric Association, Inc.

Sangre de Cristo Electric Association, Inc. is a member-owned, nonprofit electric distribution cooperative headquartered in Buena Vista, Colorado. It supplies electricity in portions of Chaffee, Fremont, Custer, Lake and Saguache counties, serving rural communities across a territory of about 2,000 square miles. Organized in 1940, the cooperative is governed by a board elected from its membership. It maintains a distribution network of more than 1,800 miles of energized line and has an additional operations base in Westcliffe. Alongside electricity delivery and outage response, it offers energy efficiency assistance, renewable energy options and community programs for its consumer-members.