Co-ops Help Schools Save Energy
Published: August 29th, 2009 in: Consumer OutreachStudents and teachers aren’t the only ones going back to school. In some classes, CFL Charlie will be there, too, as part of the Touchstone Energy® Kids “Super Energy Saver” Classroom... Read more
Lineworkers Offer Training Abroad
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: InternationalLineworkers at a Mississippi co-op recently returned from a two-week stint in Guatemala where some two-way learning took place. The six-member crew of Lucedale-based Singing River Electric... Read more
Big Water Heater Program to Begin
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Local InitiativesA Nevada co-op has struck a deal with a major manufacturer of solar water heaters to purchase and install thousands of the units that consumer-members will then be able to buy at zero percent... Read more
New NERC CEO Faces Challenges
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: NERCThe upcoming change in leadership at the nation’s grid watchdog gives electric co-ops an opportunity to offer the organization’s new chief executive a perspective on co-op programs and... Read more
Rebuilding Rushford
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: RecoveryTwo years after floodwaters swept through Rushford Minn., displacing two-thirds of the town’s residents, the joyful sounds of children playing have returned to a waterfront park. On Aug... Read more
NRECA: No FERC Standards Expansion
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Transmission & DistributionNRECA has called on federal regulators to drop their proposal to expand a transmission reliability standard developed and submitted for approval by the nation’s grid watchdog, saying the... Read more
Camp Teaches Teens About Co-ops
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Co-op NewsCall it “Camp Co-op.” For a week in July, some 80 teenage consumer-members gathered near Steamboat Springs, Colo., for a camp experience that went beyond just hiking and... Read more
Buick PHEV Quickly Vanishes
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Electric VehiclesJust two weeks after announcing plans for a Buick plug-in hybrid, General Motors abruptly killed the project. “The Buick crossover we showed received consistent feedback from large parts of... Read more
Workforce Transition Means New Jobs
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Co-op VoicesWith a new school year starting, it is a good time for students to assess their chosen path. Are the right classes being taken—are the needed skills being developed? We have seen many changes in... Read more
Ford Helps PHEVs Talk to Grid
Published: August 28th, 2009 in: Electric VehiclesWhere the rubber meets the road has just been usurped by where the PHEV meets the grid. Ford Motor Co. announced Aug. 18 that it has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and... Read more