Type Cooperative Products Electricity Number of employees 160 | Industry Electric Utility Founded 1938 Parent organization Touchstone Energy | |
Headquarters Denton, Maryland, United States CEO Michael I. Wheatley (31 Mar 2010–) Similar Old Dominion Electric C, Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, First Electric Cooperative, Peninsula Regional Medical, Arkansas Electric Cooperati Profiles | ||
Choptank Electric Cooperative Incorporated is a not-for-profit energy organization formed on September 21, 1938. Its first electric distribution lines were energized in December 1939 in Caroline County, Maryland. The cooperative was instrumental in the effort to provide electric power to the rural areas of Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Choptank Electric Cooperative is owned by its members, who each have one vote in deciding which co-op members will serve on the board of directors. They serve more than 52,000 members in Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore. This 70 by 140 mile territory contains almost 6,200 miles of distribution lines. In 2001, they were ranked the 11th largest energy company in the state of Maryland.
Choptank Electric, with headquarters in Denton, Maryland, is a Touchstone Energy Cooperative and a member of Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, a generation and transmission cooperative.