Central Power Electric Cooperative is a wholesale power supply and transmission cooperative organized in 1949 to generate power for its member rural electric distribution cooperatives. 

Central Power today continues to supply the bulk power needs of its members through a backbone system of transmission and subtransmission facilities. The six member cooperatives that make up Central Power combine to serve over 67,363 farms, homes and businesses located in a service area of 25 counties across the central and southeastern third of North Dakota.