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NRECA Urges Quick Action on Bill to Combat Wildfire Risks on Public Lands

The Fix Our Forests Act, a bipartisan bill that would speed up the permitting process for projects on public lands that protect the electric grid from wildfires, awaits approval from the Senate. In an October 13 letter, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association CEO Jim Matheson joined other utility industry leaders in urging lawmakers to pass the bill before the current Congress...

Inside Passage Electric Cooperative Selected for Federal Tribal Energy Funding

Inside Passage Electric Cooperative is a Juneau-based nonprofit utility serving more than 1,300 members in remote Southeast Alaska communities separated by water and mountains, and it has worked with tribes on earlier Department of Energy grid-resilience projects such as vegetation management in Klukwan and battery storage in Kake. It has now been selected for funding negotiations...

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative Launches $1 Billion Natural Gas Project at Hugo Plant

Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, a generation and transmission co-op based in Oklahoma, broke ground on October 14 on a $1 billion project that adds 400 megawatts of natural gas generation at its coal-based Hugo Plant, to meet rising demand and new Southwest Power Pool winter reserve requirements. The nine quick-start units will help balance the co-op’s wind and solar...