Although the electric cooperative movement of Cordoba is one of the most important of the country and nowadays it moves great part of the economy of the interior provincial economy, its appearance and development is a matter that has not been sufficiently considered yet the local historiography. That is the reason of the decision to approach this issue which is analyzed in this chapter from the perspective of the relationships between the development of the electric cooperativism and the expansion of the state intervention in the electric sector, but paying special attention to the advances of the electrification in the rural sector. The analysis contains a wide period of half a century, between the appearance of the first electric cooperat...