The mission of the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives (NMREC)
is to advance protect and advocate member interests.
NMREC Vision Statement: To be the trusted voice of rural NM Electric Cooperatives.
Organized in 1944 and headquartered in Santa Fe, the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives represents the interest of the state's electric cooperatives who are members of NMREC and their members through actively working to protect cooperative interests before regulatory, political and governmental bodies as well as the general public and administering the New Mexico Rural Electric Self-Insurer’s Fund, a workers’ compensation fund owned by New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives who are members of NMREC.
NMREC provides advocacy and general communications through directories, websites, apps, the annual Legislative Almanac, and its monthly magazine, enchantment, which give New Mexico’s electric cooperatives, who are members of NMREC, a united forum to communicate with their members.