The Association of Louisiana Electric Cooperatives is a non-profit organization which exists to represent the electric distribution cooperatives operating in the state of Louisiana. These cooperatives provide electric service to roughly 1 million citizens in 50 of the state’s 64 parishes. ALEC provides a wide range of services to its member cooperatives, including communications, state and national governmental affairs, regulatory affairs, a general-interest monthly magazine, marketing, job safety, and training programs, employee and director education, emergency aid efforts, audio and visual aids, credit union services and much more