Minnesota Cooperatives Seek Federal Funds for Small-Scale Utility and Electrification Projects
Posted on Jun 5, 2023
A partnership of Minnesota electric cooperatives and utilities, including Arrowhead Electric Cooperative and Wild Rice Electric Cooperative and its transmission supplier, Minnkota, are seeking $240 million in federal funds to advance roughly 300 small-scale utility and electrification projects throughout the state. The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to announce grant awards later this year.
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Cooperatives Push Congress to Focus on Grid Reliability
Posted on Jun 5, 2023
David Tudor, CEO of Missouri-based Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., is urging Congress to focus on electric system reliability, including permitting and environmental review reforms, to allow cooperatives to build new generation and transmission infrastructure in a timely and cost-effective way. North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s 2023 Summer Reliability Assessment recently highlighted the new electric reliability challenges facing the country.
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Texas Electric Cooperative Awarded Government Defense Contract
Posted on Jun 4, 2023
Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. has been awarded an over $8.7 million 50-year contract for electric utility services for the United States Air Force.
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Groundbreaking on Basin Electric Power Cooperative Carbon Capture Partnership
Posted on Jun 1, 2023
Basin Electric Power Cooperative (Basin Electric) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries joined with state officials in Gillette, Wyoming to break ground on two facilities designed to use carbon captured at Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station. The facilities will be the largest non-solvent-based capture plant in the world and will collect the flue gas produced by the 405-megawatt station, coal-based station.
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$3.6 Million Awarded to Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative to Support Distribution System Repairs
Posted on May 24, 2023
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded Burke-Divide Electric Cooperative over $3.6 million to repair its distribution system, which was damaged during a serve winter storm last year.
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Stakeholders Ask President Biden to Prioritize U.S. Steel Production for Electric Grid
Posted on May 24, 2023
The NRECA and eight other national organizations recently wrote to the President requesting the prioritization of domestic steel production in order to help meet the unprecedented demand for electrification, grid modernization and resilience initiatives.
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Virginia Electric Cooperatives Seek to Make Solar Programs Permanent
Posted on May 16, 2023
Three electric cooperatives in eastern Virginia have requested that the State Corporation Commission make the pilot community solar programs which began three years ago permanent. Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, Northern Neck Electric Cooperative, and A&N Electric Cooperative urged the move as a way of offering options to climate conscious member-consumers.
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Biden Administration Makes $11 Billion Available for Clean Energy Development in Rural America
Posted on May 16, 2023
The White House announced the opening of two programs designed to distribute $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities to various stakeholders, including rural electric cooperatives, for investment in clean energy resources. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Empower Rural America program will provide $9.7 billion for rural electric cooperatives and its Power Affordable Clean Energy program will make $1 billion available to cooperatives and other renewable-energy developers and providers. The combined investment in clean energy is the largest such federal intervention in rural...
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NRECA Chief Executive Officer Questions EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Rules
Posted on May 11, 2023
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced rules for greenhouse gas emissions this week, with initial requirements beginning in 2030, which could spur the retirement of certain coal-fired and gas-fired generators. The limits vary based on the size of the generator and certain operational characteristics. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) Chief Executive Officer Jim Matheson expressed concern that the proposal may force “critical always-available power plants into early retirement,” while making new natural gas plants more challenging to permit, site, and...
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Electric Cooperatives and Produce Company Collaborate to Create New Electric Refrigeration Trucking Units
Posted on May 10, 2023
Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation, Hollar & Greene Produce and North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives recently unveiled new electric refrigeration trucking units that will help reduce carbon dioxide emissions and provide a more energy efficient way to transport produce.
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LS Power to Acquire 2.1 Gigawatt Natural Gas Generation Portfolio from Brazos Electric Power Cooperative
Posted on May 10, 2023
LS Power has reached an agreement with Brazos Electric Power Cooperative to acquire 2,145 megawatts of natural gas generation that will provide critical, reliable energy supply to an ERCOT market experiencing continued load growth.
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Oregon Electric Cooperative to Receive Federal Grant to Help Prevent Wildfires
Posted on May 3, 2023
Douglas Electric Cooperative in Oregon has been awarded a $9.1 million grant by the U.S. Forest Service to assist in the removal of trees at risk of falling on power lines and sparking wildfires that threaten homes and businesses.
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NorthWestern Energy Partners with East River Electric Cooperative for Switchyard Upgrade
Posted on May 1, 2023
NorthWestern Energy has partnered with East River Electric Cooperative and Central Electric Cooperative for a $7.8 million switchyard project. The project will increase reliability for customers in the area.
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Cooperative to Acquire Fiber Broadband Services
Posted on Apr 27, 2023
Choptank Electric Cooperative and its subsidiary have finalized a deal to acquire thousands of broadband customers from Bay Country Communications over the next decade.
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