Cooperative to Partner with SUNY on Solar and Battery Storage Project
Posted on Jan 29, 2018 in Grid & Infrastructure, Project Development, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Cooperative to Partner with SUNY on Solar and Battery Storage Project
Delaware County Electric Cooperative (DCEC), the State University of New York (SUNY) and the New York Power Authority (NYPA) have announced a new project to build a solar and energy storage system that will provide clean, local power to the State University of New York at Delhi campus and the local community. This project is part of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Reforming the Energy...
Central Virginia Electric Cooperative Announces Plan to Build Fiber Network
Posted on Jan 22, 2018 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on Central Virginia Electric Cooperative Announces Plan to Build Fiber Network
Central Virginia Electric Cooperative (CVEC) has announced its plan to build a fiber network in order to deliver high-speed communications throughout its electric distribution system. CVEC intends to use this fiber network to make high-speed internet service available to all of its members. The CVEC Board of Directors has approved a one-year pilot program, to begin in 2018, and hopes...
Kentucky Solar Farm Is Up and Running
Posted on Nov 3, 2017 in Innovation/Efficiency, Project Development, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Kentucky Solar Farm Is Up and Running
On Wednesday, Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives dedicated Cooperative Solar Farm One, a brand new solar farm spanning 60 acres. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative will run the solar farm, but members of any of Kentucky’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives have the opportunity to license a solar panel. Members who buy a $460 25-year solar panel license will get credit...
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative to Provide Broadband Access
Posted on Oct 26, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Technology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative to Provide Broadband Access
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative (MEC) has requested $2.7 million from the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission to provide broadband access to all of MEC’s customers. MEC intends to partner with Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation to build the fiber optic network that will ultimately provide broadband services to the rural areas within MEC’s service region.
CoBank Report: Electric Cooperatives Increasingly Bringing Broadband to Rural Communities
Posted on Oct 2, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on CoBank Report: Electric Cooperatives Increasingly Bringing Broadband to Rural Communities
People living in rural communities are four times more likely to lack access to broadband than those in urban communities. Rural electric cooperatives, some of which were formed nearly 80 years ago to bring electricity to rural America, are increasingly making the move into broadband to fill the supply gap. Many coops have found that building out a broadband network using their...
Drones Help Coops Restore Power After Harvey
Posted on Sep 19, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on Drones Help Coops Restore Power After Harvey
Multiple cooperatives used drones to locate problems in hard-to-reach areas after Hurricane Harvey. Pedernales Electric Cooperative relied on its drone team to fly 60 missions and inspect more than 1,600 poles after the storm.
Bandera Electric Awarded Project in Liberia
Posted on Sep 6, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Technology | Comments Off on Bandera Electric Awarded Project in Liberia
The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has awarded Bandera Electric Cooperative a contract to construct a solar-plus-storage microgrid for a community in Liberia, which will benefit around 400 homes and businesses. The project will include approximately 220 solar panels and 90kWh of lithium-ion battery energy storage, alongside diesel backup generation.
Homeland Security and F.B.I. Say Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities
Posted on Jul 7, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on Homeland Security and F.B.I. Say Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities
According to security consultants and an urgent joint report issued by the Department of Homeland Security (Homeland Security) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) last week, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing plants in the United States and other...
Pedernales Electric Cooperative Partnering with University of Texas to Improve Energy Grids
Posted on Jun 30, 2017 in Grid & Infrastructure, Innovation/Efficiency, Project Development, Regulation & Policy, Technology | Comments Off on Pedernales Electric Cooperative Partnering with University of Texas to Improve Energy Grids
The University of Texas at Austin (UT) was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to participate in the Grid Modernization Initiative. Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC), the nation’s largest electric cooperative, is partnering with UT to help design the “grid of the future.” The projects will help utilities advance and expand distributed energy resources onto the grid,...
GRE to Test Carbon Capture Technologies
Posted on May 30, 2017 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Technology | Comments Off on GRE to Test Carbon Capture Technologies
Great River Energy (GRE), a regional power cooperative, is seeking funding for carbon capture research. The funding would support a project at its Spiritwood Station that seeks to use fly ash to capture carbon dioxide and a project that would inject flue gas into an onsite greenhouse at its Coal Creek Station.
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