Clark Rural Electric Coop

Clark Rural Electric Coop operates as a federal grant sub-recipient, receiving awards from the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs and the Federal Emergency Management Agency through state intermediaries, with utility infrastructure and emergency management support as the primary scope. The cooperative is structured as a non-traditional entity (not a for-profit corporation or LLC) and does not hold prime federal contracts or IDVs; all recent federal work flows through sub-grant relationships.

Clark Rural Electric Coop's federal footprint is narrow and recent. Total awards across all sources amount to eight, with combined dollars obligated at $1 million. The cooperative has worked with two distinct federal customer agencies: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (six awards) and the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (two awards). All six FEMA-funded awards route through the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs as the prime grant recipient, classified under utilities categories (F - Public Utilities and F - Utilities). The most recent activity clusters in early 2026, with three grants from KDMA awarded on January 23, 2026, two in October 2024, and one in November 2023. The cooperative's first federal award in the source data dates to 1991, but activity has been sparse — only one award each in 1991 and 1993, then a gap of thirty years before the 2023 revival.

The cooperative's role is consistently sub-grant recipient (75% of awards) rather than prime grantee (25%). The work is classified under utilities, reflecting the cooperative's core mission as a rural electric utility. The customer concentration is entirely within FEMA disaster relief and related federal emergency frameworks channeled through Kentucky's Department of Military Affairs, with no diversification across other agencies, contract vehicles, or service lines. There is no recompete exposure or pipeline trajectory visible in recent awards — the cooperative receives ad-hoc sub-awards tied to federal disaster or utility support programs, not recurring vehicle work.