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San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc. Secures $1.4 Billion for New Renewable Facility

San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc. (SMEC) has secured over $1.4 billion from the USDA’s New ERA program to transition its current coal operations to a new 400 megawatt (MW) solar facility and 200 MW of battery storage. The shift aims to reduce environmental pollution and provide affordable renewable energy to forty-seven rural South Texas counties. SMEC is one of fifteen...

San Miguel Electric Cooperative Announces First of its Kind in Texas Clean-Energy Geothermal Battery

San Miguel Electric Cooperative announced a deal with Sage Geosystems to build a geothermal pressure pilot storage system on a coal facility land.

Texas Electric Cooperative to Receive $50 Million Loan

Congressman Vicente Gonzalez recently announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a loan of $50,000,000 to San Miguel Electric Cooperative (San Miguel). This loan will allow San Miguel to make certain system improvements for a lignite-fired steam electric generating unit.