Where Does Our Electricity Come From

Your Source of Power

Wheatland Electric Cooperative, Inc., is part of a system designed to ensure reliable and affordable energy delivery to member owners like you. To understand where your power comes from, it's helpful to know the difference between a distribution cooperative and a generation cooperative.

We're Your Distribution Cooperative

WECI is an electric distribution cooperative. That means our primary role is to deliver power to homes and businesses across our extensive service territory.

Our work includes:

Maintaining over 4,500 miles of power lines and thousands of poles
Operating and monitoring substations
Responding to and restoring outages
Billing and providing member services

We receive the high-voltage electricity at our substations, transform it, and deliver it directly to your meter.

Our Generation/Transmission Providers

We do not generate our own power. Instead, we purchase wholesale electricity from generation and transmission cooperatives, ensuring a reliable supply of energy.

WECI is one of 29 rural distribution cooperatives in Kansas that purchase power from these generation cooperatives, headquartered in Hays, Kansas:

These generation cooperatives are responsible for generating electricity using various fuel sources (like coal, wind, and solar) and transmitting that electricity to our substations, where we take over the distribution to you.

This partnership structure allows WECI to focus on what we do best: safely and efficiently delivering power to every member in our community.