Duck River Electric Membership Corp

Duck River Electric Membership Corp, a Tennessee-based non-profit electric cooperative, receives federal grant sub-awards rather than operating as a prime contractor, with 68% of its recent award footprint in the sub-recipient role across federal disaster-relief and rural-development grant programs. The organization is structured as a tax-exempt corporate entity and competes exclusively in full-and-open (non-set-aside) federal grant programs.

Duck River Electric's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward disaster relief. The Federal Emergency Management Agency accounts for 36 awards across the award portfolio, with the Department of Energy providing 16 awards and the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service accounting for one award, covering 100% of identified awards. The organization has obligated $42.4 million in combined federal dollars across all awards since 1990. Activity spiked substantially in 2020 with 33 awards, then contracted to three awards in 2023 (the most recent activity in the source), which were three sub-grants from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency under FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program PA 4742, awarded on August 7, 2023. The 1990–2023 trajectory shows episodic activity: four awards in 1993, six in 1994, a gap through the 2000s, then concentrated activity in 2020–2023 driven by federal disaster-relief and rural electrification funding.

Duck River Electric operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal grants; it holds no prime grant awards and no federal contracts in the source record. The organization's work spans utilities and rural infrastructure — the top PSC category is Utilities-Electric with 16 awards. As a non-profit electric membership cooperative, Duck River Electric channels federal relief and rural-development funding into local infrastructure resilience, electrification, and cooperative operations rather than competing for commercial services contracts.