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The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's podcast is focused on the important stories from across co-op country about the issues that matter most to rural America and the energy...
After decades of stagnant growth, U.S. power demand is set to jump in the years ahead. Data centers will be a big part of the increase, but...
On this episode of Along Those Lines, we're joined by NRECA Director of Safety Programs Ken Macken and Johnie Hendrix, vice president of ris...
Effective communication by electric co-ops—through good times and bad—builds member loyalty and better aligns and engages co-op employees. I...
For over 60 years, NRECA International has helped bring electricity to unserved or underserved parts of the world, drawing on lessons learne...
Data center development is surging to meet demand for cloud applications, cryptocurrency, streaming services and AI. Electric co-ops are at...
More than 140 electric co-ops serve Department of Defense facilities or Coast Guard stations, and co-ops own, operate and maintain the power...
FEMA provides crucial funding to co-ops after disasters, allowing them to restore power faster and make their infrastructure more resilient...
Electric co-ops are experiencing a historically broad and rapid shift in their organizational culture, driven largely by an influx of younge...
NRECA's 2025 Regional Meetings kick off Sept. 3 in Providence, Rhode Island. The five meetings, which will take place across the country thr...
Rooftop solar is gaining popularity with homeowners and businesses, leading to a surge in installations over the past decade. But the techno...
Drier and hotter weather conditions are creating longer wildfire seasons in many parts of the country, and even regions not typically at ris...
After years of advocacy from NRECA, Congress passed legislation in 2022 that allows electric co-ops to access federal tax credits for certai...
Cybersecurity incidents involving the systems and data of third-party vendors are on the rise for utilities in the U.S. It's a worrying tren...
East Kentucky Power Cooperative's Tony Campbell joined President Donald Trump for a White House ceremony on April 8 to sign four major actio...
Earlier this month, Mike Partin was elected president of NRECA at the PowerXchange conference in Atlanta. Partin has been CEO of Sequachee V...
The 2024 elections were pivotal for policies affecting electric co-ops. President Donald Trump's victory and Republicans' majorities in Cong...
NRECA's annual gathering of members is a critical touchpoint for co-ops and a place to exchange ideas and stay connected. 2025 PowerXchange...
The Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan was shut down in 2022 but is on a path to be repowered by late next year—an unprecedented project th...
Electric co-ops in the Southeast grappled with unprecedented damage from back-to-back hurricanes this fall, with Helene and Milton making la...
Electric co-ops have always been energy innovation leaders, but a surge in public funding is taking that to the next level. The Inflation Re...
Artificial intelligence, with its remarkable ability to digest and analyze enormous amounts of data, has nearly limitless positive applicati...
Nestled along the upper Mississippi River and surrounded by farms and villages tucked into rolling hills, the town of Galena, Illinois, has...
Scams that target electric utility consumers have been around for almost as long as the industry itself, with criminals using the latest tec...
The 2024 hurricane season could be especially challenging for electric co-ops and their members. NOAA is predicting above-normal Atlantic hu...
The EPA recently finalized its new rule to aggressively cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants—a sweeping move that NRECA CEO Jim Ma...
In 2021, Branden Bauer was working at United Electric in Pennsylvania as a journeyman lineman with nearly 10 years of experience. During a s...
A long-simmering dispute over the Lower Snake River dams burst onto the headlines in November with news of a backroom deal between the Biden...
The electric utility industry is in the midst of a "skills and people shortage," brought on by a steady stream of senior leaders reaching re...
Artificial intelligence is poised to have a rapidly expanding impact on many facets of our lives—and the power industry is at the tip of the...
The Achieving Cooperative Community Equitable Solar Sources (ACCESS) project, a three-year, Department of Energy-funded effort in which elec...
A key piece of the broadband puzzle is the "middle mile," which connects local networks to the broader web—a particularly critical facet for...
The Commitment to Zero Contacts program, a joint effort of NRECA, Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange and statewide co-op associatio...
In November 2021, Delta-Montrose Electric Association was hit with a ransomware attack that quickly spread through the co-op's network and t...
The EPA's proposed power plant rule is set to go into effect in the spring of 2024. This sweeping set of new restrictions on emissions from...
A pandemic-era trend has many Americans relocating from urban areas to smaller cities and towns, but they're facing a growing shortage of av...
The reliability of America's electric grid is no longer a guarantee amid government regulations forcing the disorderly closure of always-on...
Tony Anderson, general manager of Cherryland Electric Cooperative in Michigan, recently kicked off his two-year term as NRECA president. He'...
Electric school buses are becoming a more common sight in rural school districts, thanks in part to new federal funding created by the bipar...
Over the last 50 years, the Electric Cooperative Youth Tour has sent over 75,000 rural teenagers to Washington, D.C., for the "trip of a lif...
Electric co-ops saw a major victory last year with the inclusion of direct-pay incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act. The law gives co-o...
More than 200 electric co-ops have already built or started work to offer broadband either on their own or in a partnership, and that number...
Small modular reactors and their smaller cousins, microreactors, are getting plenty of buzz as an important potential source of carbon-free...
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law passed in late 2021 offers an unprecedented opportunity for electric co-ops to add services...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month edition: What do an electric cooperative's internal and operational networks look like to a hacker, and what c...
The advent of more engaged and empowered consumer-members is driving broad changes in the way electric co-ops do business and how they commu...
The ongoing global supply chain crisis has spurred double-digit inflation, frustrated companies and consumers and driven the U.S. economy to...
More than 200 electric cooperatives already provide broadband, and co-ops' role in this space is poised to become more prominent amid new go...
As many rural areas have suffered population loss and stagnating economic growth, electric co-ops have stepped up to try to reverse this tre...
Hydropower plants are marvels of engineering that have helped bring development and prosperity to the regions they serve. But they're also i...
Electric cooperatives, whose rugged territories and unique operational needs are ideally suited to the capabilities of drones, are leading t...