Starting July 1, we moved from three bill cycles to two: • Cycle 1 bills will continue to have usage from the 1st of the month to the last day of the month. The due date will be extended from the 20th to the 23rd allowing three extra days. •

You are invited to attend the 81st Annual Meeting of the Members at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18 at our headquarters facility at 1732 Finney Road, Murphysboro, Ill. Registration will open and food service begin at 4:30 p.m. All registered cooperative members will receive a $20 credit on their

Kally Mayo, one of three Egyptian Electric Cooperative Youth Tour delegates, was chosen among her 60 Illinois Youth Tour counterparts to the Youth Leadership Council (YLC). Youth Tour is currently being conducted in Washington D.C. this week, June 14-June 21. She will represent Egyptian Electric Cooperative and the state of

In February the board of directors accepted application for an upcoming vacant board seat due to the anticipated departure of Allen Haake from the area. Allen has been a resident of Murphysboro since 1977, and an Egyptian Electric Cooperative board member since 1998. Interviews were conducted to replace him on

The 2019 Annual Meeting Scholarship Application is now live on our website! There will be at least five names drawn the night of the Annual Meeting for a chance at $1,000. Deadline is Friday, July 5, 2019.  Visit our Annual Meeting Scholarship page to view the eligibility requirements and the

State Senators Paul Schimpf and Dale Fowler, and Representatives Terri Bryant, Jerry Costello, Dave Severin and Patrick Windhorst met with students representing Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association during the Illinois Electric and Telephone Cooperatives Youth Day in Springfield on Wednesday, April 3. Youth Day is designed to introduce young rural leaders

Youth to Washington applications are now being accepted until March 8, 2019! Youth Day to Springfield will be Wednesday, April 3rd and Youth to Washington will be June 14-21, 2019.  Visit our Youth to Washington page to learn more and apply!

Ten area classrooms will now be enhanced with an extra $500 thanks to grants from Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association (EECA). For many years, EECA has offered the Touchstone Energy Classroom Empowerment Grants to local schools within its service territory, and this year, it increased the number of recipients from eight

The Southern Illinois Airport Authority (SIAA) in Murphysboro has an active 2019 construction season planned. Four new buildings will be constructed in the next year with the price tag of nearly $8 million. Three buildings will be new aircraft hangar facilities and one will house a new airport terminal. Egyptian

It “pays” to be a cooperative member! A total of 6,470 capital credit checks from the 2018 general retirements were mailed out October 12, 2018 and should be delivered soon. The 2018 distributions were for 1987 and part of 1988, to the members that received electricity from us during those