Published in November 2025, the Electric Cooperative Organizing Toolkit focuses on an often-overlooked part of the United States’ energy ecosystem: rural electric cooperatives.

Also known as RECs, electric cooperatives, electric membership corporations or just “co-ops”, these utilities offer a powerful and largely-untapped mechanism in which regular people can influence their community’s energy infrastructure.

The toolkit is a guide that helps readers get familiarized with some basics of what rural electric cooperatives are, how they operate, and how people can get involved in them.

While this toolkit is primarily meant to be used by rural residents and people who have electric co-ops in their area, there are large sections of this toolkit that are informative and useful for folks generally interested in energy infrastructure and democratic controls over it.