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Black River Electric Cooperative
Meeting the needs of their members is what Black River Electric Co-operative started doing in 1938 and continues to do today. Those who receive electricity from the co-operative are members and they in essence are the owners of the Co-op. BREC is a distribution co-operative currently providing power to more than 25,000 members in ten counties of southeast Missouri.