GOLDEN SPREAD ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. (GSEC) was incorporated in 1984 as a non-profit wholesale power supplier for its sixteen member distribution cooperatives that provide retail service to about 337,000 electric consumers located in the Panhandle, South Plains, and Edwards Plateau Regions of Texas, the Panhandle of Oklahoma, and small portions of Southwest Kansas, Southeast Colorado, and Northeast New Mexico. GSEC serves loads in two markets: the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). With approximately 1,745 MW of owned generation, GSEC prides itself on reliably an