HILCO Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Itasca, Texas, United States, with a district office in Whitney, Texas and a district office in Midlothian, Texas.
The cooperative was organized in 1936 as Hill County Electric Cooperative and serves portions of Dallas, Ellis, Hill, Johnson, and McLennan Counties in a territory ranging generally from south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to north of Waco, Texas.
Currently (as of 2010 year-end) the cooperative has 2,866 miles of distribution lines and 23,137 meters. HILCO is a member of the Brazos Electric Power Cooperative, a generation and transmission electric cooperative.
The cooperative also provides water services and propane sales in portions of the same territory as its electric service.
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