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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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Vanadium Flow Batteries Are Coming For Your Gas Power Plant

May 11, 2024 admin Electric Cooperatives, Energy Storage, flow batteries, flow battery, grid, invinity, long-duration energy storage, pacific northwest national laboratory, renewable energy, us department of energy (doe), usa, vanadium, vanadium flow batteries

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 14:45:40 +0000

The US Department of Energy has tapped six sites to host new vanadium flow batteries, aiming to replace fossil energy with renewables.

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The Agrivoltaics Plot Thickens: Energy Crisis, Farm Crisis, & Water Crisis All In Play

August 20, 2022 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaics, argonne national laboratory, clean power, COLORADO, Electric Cooperatives, Energy, guzman energy, nrel, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar panels, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:50:26 +0000

Agrivoltaics can help solve a trifecta of issues impacting agriculture in the US and elsewhere: energy, revenue, and water.

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Ailing power co-ops down to 8 in ‘19

February 23, 2020 admin Electric Cooperatives, power co-ops, Top Business

Credit to Author: Jordeene B. Lagare| Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:13:16 +0000

THE total number of ailing electric cooperatives (ECs) have declined to eight as of end-2019, with the majority located in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), according to the National Electrification Administration (NEA). In a recent interview, NEA Administrator Edgardo Masongsong said problematic ECs are the Abra Electric Cooperative (Abreco), Albay Electric Cooperative […]

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31 power co-ops tap P700-M loans from NEA

January 24, 2020 admin Electric Cooperatives, National Electrification Administration, Top Business

Credit to Author: Jordeene B. Lagare| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:20:34 +0000

Thirty-one electric cooperatives (ECs) borrowed more than P700 million worth of loans from the National Electrification Administration (NEA) to improve power services in their respective coverage areas. In a statement on Friday, the NEA said the financial aid to these co-ops in 2019 exceeded its full-year target of P450 million. Data from the NEA Accounts […]

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Power co-op group hits ‘flip-flop’ on franchises

February 3, 2019 admin Alfonso Cusi, DOE, Electric Cooperatives, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Headlines, Latest News Stories, philippine rural electric cooperatives association inc., philreca, power franchises, Regions

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 21:17:42 +0000

An umbrella group of 121 electric cooperatives across the country expressed frustration over the Department of Energy’s (DOE) flip-flop over a recommendation to revoke the franchises of 17 of the group’s members, saying this showed the haste and unjustness of DOE actions.

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