Our Communities

New Report Shows Electric Co-ops Are ‘Powerful Engines of Economic Development’

Between 2018-22, electric co-ops contributed $554 billion to GDP, or $111 billion annually.

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The Cooperative Advantage

Co-op Member’s Generosity Brings Energy Innovation to Block Island

A late co-op member’s commitment to clean energy has resulted in generous contributions.

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Energy & Technology

Co-op CEO: ‘Jobs and Industry Will Flee’ if Reliability Issues Aren’t Fixed

South Carolina is a leader in electrifying the economy but needs more power to meet demand.

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Our Communities

Along Those Lines: Filling the Rural Housing Gap

What are rural leaders, including electric co-ops, doing to fix the rural housing gap?

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Broadband

‘Transforming Lives’: Co-op Makes 20K Broadband Connections in 52 Months

20K broadband connections in four years at peak cost $3 million a week in infrastructure.

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Energy & Technology

‘The Best Thing I Could Have Hoped For’: G&T Relied on Staff to Repower Plant

Cooperative Energy has a new combined cycle power plant, and employees helped build it.

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Our Communities

New Report Shows Electric Co-ops Are ‘Powerful Engines of Economic Development’

Between 2018-22, electric co-ops contributed $554 billion to GDP, or $111 billion annually.

Read More Now

The Cooperative Advantage

Co-op Member’s Generosity Brings Energy Innovation to Block Island

A late co-op member’s commitment to clean energy has resulted in generous contributions.

Read More Now

Our Communities

Along Those Lines: Filling the Rural Housing Gap

What are rural leaders, including electric co-ops, doing to fix the rural housing gap?

Read More Now

Energy & Technology

Co-op CEO: ‘Jobs and Industry Will Flee’ if Reliability Issues Aren’t Fixed

South Carolina is a leader in electrifying the economy but needs more power to meet demand.

Read More Now

Broadband

‘Transforming Lives’: Co-op Makes 20K Broadband Connections in 52 Months

20K broadband connections in four years at peak cost $3 million a week in infrastructure.

Read More Now

Energy & Technology

‘The Best Thing I Could Have Hoped For’: G&T Relied on Staff to Repower Plant

Cooperative Energy has a new combined cycle power plant, and employees helped build it.

Read More Now

Our Communities

New Report Shows Electric Co-ops Are ‘Powerful Engines of Economic Development’

Between 2018-22, electric co-ops contributed $554 billion to GDP, or $111 billion annually.

Read More Now

The Cooperative Advantage

Co-op Member’s Generosity Brings Energy Innovation to Block Island

A late co-op member’s commitment to clean energy has resulted in generous contributions.

Read More Now

Energy & Technology

Co-op CEO: ‘Jobs and Industry Will Flee’ if Reliability Issues Aren’t Fixed

South Carolina is a leader in electrifying the economy but needs more power to meet demand.

Read More Now

Our Communities

Along Those Lines: Filling the Rural Housing Gap

What are rural leaders, including electric co-ops, doing to fix the rural housing gap?

Read More Now

Broadband

‘Transforming Lives’: Co-op Makes 20K Broadband Connections in 52 Months

20K broadband connections in four years at peak cost $3 million a week in infrastructure.

Read More Now

Energy & Technology

‘The Best Thing I Could Have Hoped For’: G&T Relied on Staff to Repower Plant

Cooperative Energy has a new combined cycle power plant, and employees helped build it.

Read More Now

Spotlight on Cooperative Development

Along Those Lines: Middle-Mile Muddle

Hear from NRECA's Katie Culleton as well as Steven Bandy, general manager of OzarksGo.

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Virginia Co-op Employee is First Linewoman on NRECA International Project

Lineworker Genevie Boarman helped electrify a village in northwestern Guatemala.

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52 Co-ops Chosen to Pursue $650M in DOE Grid Reliability Grants

$10.5 billion GRIP Program was created under bipartisan infrastructure law.

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Our Communities Topics

Cooperative Development

Electric co-ops are continually working to provide better solutions to the members and communities they serve.

Economy & Trends

Businesses run on power and connectedness. Electric cooperatives make it possible.

Quality of Life

The areas our members call home are important to us, and provide both unique challenges and opportunities for quality of life.