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Helene’s Historic Devastation Spurs Largest-Ever Mutual Aid Response, Signals Power Sector Reckoning

October 3, 2024 admin co-ops, Electric Cooperatives, emergency response, Extreme weather, full coverage, grid resilience, hurricane helene, mutual aid, news, news and notes, nreca, power infrastructure, power outages, resilience, Safety, storm recovery, Storms, T&D, transmission and distribution, utility sector, workforce

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:48:28 +0000

Electric cooperatives across the Southeast describe Hurricane Helene’s devastation as vast and unprecedented, warning that restoring some crucial infrastructure serving the not-for-profit entities’ customers will take a long and arduous […]

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How Co-ops Transformed the Solar Landscape in Just Five Years

July 19, 2018 admin Business, co-ops, finance, nreca, Renewables, rural electric cooperatives, Solar, sunda

Electric cooperatives in the U.S. have vastly accelerated solar power installments. Today, they own or purchase more than nine times as much solar photovoltaic (PV) power as they did in 2013, a new report says. The report, “A Solar Revolution in Rural America,” was prepared by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), a […]

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