About MTE
Your local, member-owned electric cooperative
Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) has been here to make life better since 1936. We're a not-for-profit electric cooperative, which means that the organization is owned by those we serve. When you get power from MTE, you're a member and an owner. Today, we're the largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley region and the second largest in the country. Our mission is to provide affordable, reliable, safe electricity and outstanding member service. On this page, you can learn more about how your cooperative works, find community programs, catch up on news and explore careers.
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About Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE)
Founded in 1936, MTE is the largest electric cooperative in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) region and the second largest in the United States, serving more than 750,000 Tennesseans via 345,000+ accounts covering nearly 2,200 square miles in 11 Middle Tennessee counties, primarily Rutherford, Cannon, Williamson and Wilson. Municipalities served include Murfreesboro, Franklin, Brentwood, Smyrna, La Vergne, Lebanon and Mt. Juliet. MTE employs around 540 people in five local offices and its Murfreesboro headquarters.
MTE’s subsidiary, United Communications, is a nationally recognized broadband company with a fiber network spanning more than 6,100 route miles, providing high-speed internet and phone services to portions of Bedford, Davidson, Franklin, Giles, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Rutherford, Williamson, and Wilson counties.
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Like every cooperative, MTE follows the Seven Cooperative Principles. They've guided us since 1936. They're why members have a voice in how MTE is run: one member, one vote.
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