Choptank Electric Cooperative, is a not-for-profit, member-owned, electric distribution Co-op serving approximately 56,000 residential, commercial, and industrial metered accounts in all nine counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The Cooperative was incorporated as Choptank Cooperative, Inc. on Sept. 15, 1938, following the passage of the Rural Electrification Act. Its first 78 miles of line were energized in Caroline County on Dec. 15, 1939, serving 184 members. The cooperative’s name was changed to Choptank Electric Cooperative in 1942. Then in 1976, Choptank Electric Cooperative joined Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) to obtain lower wholesale power costs.