Service Area
Rural Electric Cooperatives provide electrical service to customers
within a geographical area know as a "Service Area" or "Service
Territory". These Service Areas often look like highly "gerrymandered"
political boundaries and occasionally there will be areas or pockets
withing the boundary where the Coop does not provide service like a
small town or city serviced by another electric utility.
Within these Service Areas the Coop typically has an effective monopoly with no meaningful competition.
Coops ordinarily publicize their Service Area on their websites; however, for some reason Caddo Electric is apparently hiding its Service Area. You can see an approximate map of the area covered by Caddo Electric on the website of the group that lobbies for Oklahoma Coops -- the Oklahoma Associate of Electric Cooperatives:
Coop Website
Most Rural Electric Cooperatives maintain websites but they rarely
provide material information about important aspects of their
operations. In fact this failure by a Coop to be forthcoming about its
policies involving patronage or capital credits is a red flag that its
policies and practices are suspect.
This is Caddo Electric's website: