Coops Offer Net Metering Alternatives
Posted on Aug 26, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Coops Offer Net Metering Alternatives
Michigan’s Cherryland Electric Cooperative and its supplier, Wolverine Power Cooperative, have developed a plan that would allow customers to choose between three options for participating in solar generation—a community solar subscription, a “buy all, sell all” option, which would allow solar owners to sell all power they generate back to their provider and then buy all their...
Cooperatives Financing Efficiency Upgrades through Opt-in Tariffs
Posted on Aug 19, 2016 in Energy Savings Programs, Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Rates | Comments Off on Cooperatives Financing Efficiency Upgrades through Opt-in Tariffs
Smaller, rural cooperatives have been experimenting with a model that gets around a customer’s inability or unwillingness to take on debt or invest in energy efficiency upgrades through offering a voluntary on-bill tariff. Cooperatives have been able to lead this innovation because shareholder interests and customer interests are aligned. Put simply, the customer chooses the upgrades...
Electric Coops Fuel Rural Broadband Growth
Posted on Aug 9, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Regulation & Policy | Comments Off on Electric Coops Fuel Rural Broadband Growth
Electric cooperatives are helping to bring high-speed internet access to rural areas. Today, about 40 electric coops offer or are in the process of building networks to provide high-speed internet service, compared with just one in 2010.
Two Wisconsin Coops Lead Charge on New Solar Project
Posted on Aug 9, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Two Wisconsin Coops Lead Charge on New Solar Project
A new solar project being developed in Wisconsin will serve the state’s electric cooperatives, providing 15 megawatts of capacity. The “Sunflower II” array, to be located in Hammond, will be interconnected into the distribution system of St. Croix Electric Cooperative, which has contracted to buy 7 percent of the project’s output and will sell the balance of its power to generation...
Tennessee Coops Encouraged by Findings and Recommendations of Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development
Posted on Jul 22, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics | Comments Off on Tennessee Coops Encouraged by Findings and Recommendations of Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development
The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development recently issued a report finding that regulatory barriers hinder electric cooperatives from providing broadband internet access to their members. The Tennessee Electric Cooperative Association issued a press release praising the report, stating that “[c]o-ops have a legacy of expanding critical services beyond the city...
GRE to Retire North Dakota Coal Plant
Posted on Jul 19, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure | Comments Off on GRE to Retire North Dakota Coal Plant
Minnesota generation and transmission cooperative Great River Energy (GRE) has decided to retire its Stanton Station, a coal plant located near Bismarck, North Dakota. The 189-megawatt plan served GRE’s customers in Minnesota.
Colorado Coop Offers Ultra-Fast Internet Access
Posted on Jul 19, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on Colorado Coop Offers Ultra-Fast Internet Access
Colorado’s Delta-Montrose Electric Association plans to provide one gigabit broadband internet to members this winter. It will take approximately five years for the cooperative to construct the facilities necessary to provide access to all of its members, however. Doing so will require overlaying 4,000 miles of distribution line with fiber cables connected to individual homes. Once...
NRECA Partners With Department of Energy
Posted on Jul 19, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on NRECA Partners With Department of Energy
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) will be partnering with the Department of Energy and the American Public Power Association to enhance protection of the electric grid from attack. The partnership will give the nation’s electric cooperatives access to cybersecurity technology and training.
Wolverine Announces Commission of Alpine Power Plant
Posted on Jun 17, 2016 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development | Comments Off on Wolverine Announces Commission of Alpine Power Plant
Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative, Inc. (Wolverine) announced that the new Alpine Power Plant, a natural gas-fired peaking plant located turbine in Elmira, Michigan, is now fully-powered. Once final commissioning is complete, the two generators, capable of producing a combined 410 MWs of electricity, will be handed off to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator for routine...
Texas Grid Operator Expects Major Increase in Solar Growth
Posted on Jun 14, 2016 in Environmental, Grid & Infrastructure, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Texas Grid Operator Expects Major Increase in Solar Growth
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas expects solar to become the second or third largest source of electric generation in Texas by 2031.
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