Formed in 1938 Cobb Electric Membership Corporation more commonly known as Cobb EMC is a non-profit electric utility company serving parts of Cobb Cherokee Bartow Paulding and small sections of Fulton counties in Georgia. It also has a completely separate service area in southwest Georgia serving Calhoun Clay Quitman and Randolph counties. In 2009 it had total sales of over 3.8 billion kilowatt-hours.