Four Coops to Receive RUS Loans
Colorado-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State), Georgia-based Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation, Texas-based Rio Grande Electric Cooperative and Ohio-based Logan County Cooperative Power & Light Association will receive more than $126 million in loans from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) for infrastructure upgrades, including $20 million for smart grid projects. The four coops serve eight states. Tri-State, which delivers electricity to its 44-member systems in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming, will receive $73 million, the largest loan of the group. Click here for more.