A&N Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electrical distribution cooperative serving over 35,000 homes, farms, and businesses in Accomack and Northampton Counties on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland. 

 Cooperatives like us began in the 1930s. At that time, more than 50 years after the first American neighborhood was lighted, rural areas were being left in the dark because it was too expensive to provide electricity. Without power, the simplest of farm chores remained back-breaking work.

Today A&N Electric Cooperative continues to provide electric service to its members in the counties of Accomack and Northampton on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and Smith Island, Maryland. The cooperative is non-profit, with no outside investors. The same refundable $5 fee charged in 1940 is all that is required to become a member. Any profits are returned to customers in the form of capital credits.