DEMCO

DEMCO is a member-owned electric distribution cooperative, founded in 1938, that moves power across roughly 9,460 miles of distribution line to more than 120,000 energized meters in seven Louisiana parishes: Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, and West Feliciana. That footprint is the operating reality for anyone thinking about the security of critical infrastructure here - physical grid assets, metering endpoints, and the outage response workflows that keep them running, spread across rural and suburban service territory over 88 years of continuous operation.

The technical surface is broader than the poles and wires. DEMCO's work spans electric power distribution, energy efficiency programs, solar energy options, electric vehicle charging infrastructure deployment, and outage management services. Grid-edge additions - distributed solar, EV charging, member-facing efficiency programs - extend the network beyond traditional distribution operations, and outage management ties field response directly to system state.

As a cooperative, DEMCO is owned by its members rather than shareholders, and states its mission in those terms: safely providing reliable and competitively priced energy to enhance quality of life for members, employees, and communities. Safety, reliability, and long-term community commitment are the explicit priorities, with headquarters operations centered in Louisiana.