NRECA Receives $3.6 Million Cyber Security Grant
Posted on Sep 25, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on NRECA Receives $3.6 Million Cyber Security Grant
The Department of Energy recently awarded the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) a $3.6 million grant to be used to develop advanced cyber security technology to assist rural cooperatives in monitoring and securely managing their systems from changing threats. NRECA will work with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Honeywell...
Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Iowa Coops Protest Denial of Aid for Storm Damage
Representatives of several Iowa power providers traveled to Washington, D.C., after they learned the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) denied disaster aid for coops in Dickinson, Osceola, Lyon, Sioux and O’Brien counties. Three Iowa electric cooperatives and two municipal utilities reported damage to infrastructure after a severe ice storm passed through the Iowa Great Lakes...
Colorado Coops Crippled by Floods
Posted on Sep 17, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Reliability | Comments Off on Colorado Coops Crippled by Floods
Colorado electric coops have not begun calculating the damage to their systems from the recent floods because crews cannot access the damaged areas. The roads – especially bridges – have been so hard hit by rising waters that crews are forced to wait before they can respond and repair. Click here for more.
Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Posted on Sep 16, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Financing, Legislative & Politics, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Alaska Coop Finalizes Financing to Purchase Plant
Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) of Fairbanks, Alaska, has finalized financing from the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Cooperative Finance Bank to purchase the 50-MW Healy Clean Coal Project from the State of Alaska. The Cooperative Finance Bank will finance the purchase of the plant, which will be renamed “Healy Unit 2,” while the RUS loan will finance new emissions...
Suit Over Wildfire Broadened to Include Tree-Trimming Company
Posted on Sep 13, 2013 in Litigation, Reliability | Comments Off on Suit Over Wildfire Broadened to Include Tree-Trimming Company
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is seeking redress from a tree-trimming company for damages caused to homes from a 2011 wildfire in the amount of $35 million. This move comes after the coop was sued by individuals who lost their homes to the wildfire. The coop is seeking remedies from the tree-trimming company to protect its ratepayers and to enforce what it claims is the proper...
NRECA Forming Cyber Security Task Force
Posted on Sep 9, 2013 in Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on NRECA Forming Cyber Security Task Force
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is forming a task force to ensure that coops’ needs are met when cyber security regulations and legislation take shape and require coops to take responsibility for safeguarding their operations. The NRECA Cyber Security Task Force will focus on the implementation of cyber security standards by the North American Electric...
Oklahoma Coop Considering Merger
Posted on Sep 9, 2013 in Corporate Governance, Mergers/Acquisitions, Rates, Reliability | Comments Off on Oklahoma Coop Considering Merger
Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative (CVEC), based in Seminole, Oklahoma, has notified about 24,000 customers that it is contemplating a consolidation or joint operations with Central Rural Electric Cooperative, a 22,000 member coop based in Stillwater, Oklahoma. CVEC believes that a consolidation might offer rate stability for members through cost sharing of cooperative and utility...
Colorado Coop Continues Restoration Efforts After Fire
Posted on Aug 30, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Reliability | Comments Off on Colorado Coop Continues Restoration Efforts After Fire
Mountain View Electric Association is working to rebuild damaged power supply infrastructure, including 41 miles of distribution lines, following the Black Forest fire near Colorado Springs. The coop continues to work diligently and has already restored more than half of the downed distribution lines. The blog Powering the West has more on Mountain View’s progress.
NERC CIP V4 Compliance Date Extended Six Months
Posted on Aug 29, 2013 in Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on NERC CIP V4 Compliance Date Extended Six Months
Electric coops subject to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection Version 4 (CIP V4) standards now have an extra six months after the original April 1, 2014, deadline to comply, thanks to a deadline extension granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. To read more about this extension, including whether it affects...
Kentucky Coops Gear Up for Cybersecurity Review
Posted on Aug 22, 2013 in Grid & Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Reliability | Comments Off on Kentucky Coops Gear Up for Cybersecurity Review
The Kentucky Public Service Commission received a grant from the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners to conduct a cybersecurity study of several electric distribution coops. The effort will result in a report that identifies cybersecurity risks, best practices and recommended next steps to protect infrastructure at a reasonable cost to ratepayers. Click here for...
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