Touchstone Energy
Touchstone Energy was formed in 1998 to go above and beyond just promoting cooperative values. The name Touchstone was chosen deliberately. A touchstone is a stone related to flint that was formerly used to test the purity of gold. The term later came to mean "a test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of something." Touchstone Energy Cooperatives invite members and electric consumers nationwide to compare us to any other electric utility, regardless of size.
Touchstone Energy
- Is an alliance of more than 600 cooperatives in 44 states that collectively deliver power and energy solutions to more than 22 million customers every day.
- Provides high standards of service to all customers -- residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural.
- Is a branding initiative that communicates electric cooperatives’ unique characteristics in a changing marketplace where these values and differences matter more each day.
- Emphasizes the significance of each electric cooperative’s local presence and unique ties to its community, but offers the resources of a nationwide network to bring added value and benefit to customers.
Touchstone Energy Programs include:
- Get Charged!, a joint effort by Touchstone Energy and Discovery Channel Schools to provide educational material about electricity and the history of cooperatives to middle schools.
- Bill Consolidation and Energy Management Program, designed to offer Touchstone Energy cooperatives’ commercial and industrial (C&I) customers convenience and savings.
- National Child Identification Program, in which the American Football Coaches Association, Touchstone Energy and the FBI have joined efforts to provide parents with an ID tool to help protect their children.