Hill Panel OKs Dodd-Frank Guidance
Published: January 29th, 2012 in: Legislation, Top StoryThe House Agriculture Committee has advanced several bills that address electric cooperatives’ concerns with federal regulators’ “overreach” in writing financial reform regulations. NRECA... Read more
Cape Wind Might Not Blow for Years
Published: January 27th, 2012 in: Renewable EnergyThe project billed as the nation’s first offshore wind farm won’t be spinning its turbines until at least 2015, grid officials say. ISO New England, which administers the regional... Read more
EIA: Slow Growth in Electricity Use
Published: January 27th, 2012 in: Trends, Reports & AnalysesThe nation’s total electricity consumption will grow at an average annual rate of 0.8 percent through 2035, the Energy Information Administration reported. Electricity use will increase from... Read more
Windy Weather Plagues Power in Texas
Published: January 26th, 2012 in: RecoveryTexans welcomed heavy rains after months of drought, but the high winds and flash flooding that came with the severe storms also caused scattered power outages at electric cooperatives across the... Read more
N.H. Upgrade to Improve Reliability
Published: January 26th, 2012 in: Transmission & DistributionA New Hampshire electric cooperative is linking four of its substations to improve system reliability for about 25 percent of its consumer-members. Officials also say the work being done... Read more
Storing Wind Power in Volcanic Rock
Published: January 26th, 2012 in: R & DCan volcanic rock be a lockbox for wind energy? That’s the idea behind a project in the Pacific Northwest, where researchers are trying to determine whether they can shunt excess wind... Read more
Avoid Pitfalls, Co-op Leaders Told
Published: January 25th, 2012 in: CEO Close-Up, Trends, Reports & AnalysesINDIAN WELLS, Calif.—Leadership starts at the top, but there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about it. That was the message a veteran executive of one of the nation’s... Read more
Co-ops in Mid-South Battle Outages
Published: January 25th, 2012 in: ResponseHigh winds and numerous tornadoes caused scattered power outages across the mid-South early this week, but electric cooperative line crews were able to handle most of them and restore service to... Read more
N.D. Regulator Gets FERC Nomination
Published: January 25th, 2012 in: FERCPresident Obama has announced that he will nominate veteran state utility regulator Tony Clark to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission -- a decision that's winning praise from industry... Read more
Ohio Co-op CEO Wins Leadership Award
Published: January 25th, 2012 in: CEO Close-Up, Co-op NewsINDIAN WELLS, Calif.— In this International Year of Cooperatives, the head of an Ohio electric cooperative is being singled out for his “personal and proactive promotion of... Read more