The Mid-Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP) is an association of electric utilities and other electric industry participants. MAPP was organized in 1972 for the purpose of pooling generation and transmission.

MAPP membership is voluntary and includes electric utilities and other industry participants who have interests in the Upper Midwest.

Its members are investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, municipals, public power districts, a power marketing agency, power marketers, regulatory agencies, and independent power producers from the following states and provinces: Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and parts of Wisconsin, Montana, Iowa and South Dakota. MAPP also has members in Kansas and Missouri. MAPP serves over 16 million people and covers nearly 1,000,000 square miles.

The MAPP organization’s has two primary functions: a regional transmission group, responsible for facilitating open access of the transmission system and a generation reserve sharing pool which provides efficient and available generation to meet regional demand. These functions assure efficient and economical power in the upper Midwest for the industry and the public interests.