The Member Cooperatives continue to see a strong member demand for electricity. The MEC service territory continues to see a population increase and is experiencing industrial and manufacturing growth from large companies establishing and expanding operations in the region.
This growth causes peak electricity demand to increase, resulting in the need for additional generating capacity to meet these needs. A combination of this growth and the region's overall resource constraints means that without proper planning and the development of new generating capacity, it will be a challenge for MEC to reliability meet the demand for electricity in the very near future.