Unlike what happened in other provincial jurisdictions of Argentina, in Cordoba the electric cooperativism was seen by the public authorities, since its emergence, as a viable alternative to the traditional capitalist exploitation of the electrical industry and to achieve the electrification of the provincial interior. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the attitude assumed by Cordoba´s government in relation to the first’s electric cooperatives that emerged in 1930 in the province. Therefore, this analysis, centered exclusively in the Mediterranean province but framed in the national and international experience of electric cooperativism, covers a broad period of half a century, between the appearance of the first electric cooperative...