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...
Coop Action Plan for EPA Regs
Posted on Sep 24, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on Coop Action Plan for EPA Regs
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) plans to enlist the support of electric coops and their members nationwide to deal with proposed regulations for future power plants that are built. The new Cooperative Action Network website seeks to organize this movement. NRECA will seek coop input as it develops comments on the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
Coops Continue to Take on EPA’s New Climate Plan
Posted on Sep 24, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on Coops Continue to Take on EPA’s New Climate Plan
Representatives of electric coops across the country are trying to get the following message across on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rulemaking announced September 20: This rulemaking is not feasible and prohibitively expensive. Specifically, the EPA’s rulemaking implementing the Clean Air Act requires future coal-based generation to employ carbon capture and storage...
Montana Coop to Purchase Energy from Biomass Facility
Posted on Sep 21, 2013 in Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Montana Coop to Purchase Energy from Biomass Facility
Flathead Electric Cooperative, Inc. recently entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement with Stoltze Lumber. Sized at approximately 2.5 MW, the biomass facility will use woodchips, sawdust, and bark to create steam which is used in the process of drying lumber and also to generate electricity. KAJ News has the full story.
G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
Posted on Sep 19, 2013 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on G&T Coop to Share Emissions Reduction Technology with Chinese Company
An emissions reduction technology developed by Minnesota-based Great River Energy (GRE) will now have an international impact. GRE has signed a 10-year licensing and technology transfer agreement to make its DryFining™ technology available in China. The DryFining™ technology will be used by Shenzhou Manufacturing Co., which provides coal processing equipment that serves mines and...
South Carolina Coop Planning Industrial Spec Building
Posted on Sep 12, 2013 in Financing, Land Use, Technology | Comments Off on South Carolina Coop Planning Industrial Spec Building
A subsidiary of Pee Dee Electric Cooperative (Pee Dee) is planning to construct a 100,000-square-foot industrial spec building in Pee Dee Touchstone Energy Commerce City. The industrial park, located in Florence County, South Carolina, has already attracted several Fortune 500 businesses. The project will cost an estimated $7.1 million and will be funded by Pee Dee, the county of...
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...
CFC Announces Pilot Program with NRCO and Federated
Posted on Sep 9, 2013 in Financing, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on CFC Announces Pilot Program with NRCO and Federated
The National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) is working with the National Renewables Cooperative Organization (NRCO) and Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange (Federated) to promote a more efficient process for the development of solar projects by coops. NRCO will play a guiding role in the program by advising coops on project management, marketing and...
USDA Announces $11 Million in Loan Guarantees for Smart Grid Improvements
Posted on Sep 9, 2013 in Financing, Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on USDA Announces $11 Million in Loan Guarantees for Smart Grid Improvements
At a recent regional meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) funding of projects across eight states, including $11 million in loan guarantees for smart grid improvements. See the USDA press release for a complete list of projects.
Coop Industry Groups Seek Notice to Protect Critical Communication Systems
Posted on Aug 20, 2013 in Regulation & Policy, Reliability, Technology | Comments Off on Coop Industry Groups Seek Notice to Protect Critical Communication Systems
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Utilities Telecom Council, the American Public Power Association and the Edison Electric Institute have asked the Federal Communications Commission to require a 30-day advance notice period when a high-tech company deploys products or services that could disrupt a utility’s critical communication systems. Progeny, a high-tech...
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