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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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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Cooperative Development

‘A Vital Community Project’: Co-op Plants Trees to Aid Wildfire Recovery

Results of co-op-sponsored wildfire restoration projects could last hundreds of years.

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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

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

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

Cooperative Development

‘A Vital Community Project’: Co-op Plants Trees to Aid Wildfire Recovery

Results of co-op-sponsored wildfire restoration projects could last hundreds of years.

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

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

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

Cooperative Development

‘A Vital Community Project’: Co-op Plants Trees to Aid Wildfire Recovery

Results of co-op-sponsored wildfire restoration projects could last hundreds of years.

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 Quality of Life

New Hampshire Co-op Hosts ‘EV Cruise Night’ to Educate, Engage Members

A 1950s-style diner in New Hampshire will be the scene of a co-op-sponsored EV Cruise Night.

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Florida Co-op Uses Social Media to Reunite Lost ‘Power Pup’ With Owner

A lost dog helped inspire a new partnership between a Florida co-op and an animal shelter.

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NRECA CEO to Congress: Improve Broadband Programs Crucial to Rural America

More than 200 electric cooperatives are involved in efforts to deploy rural broadband.

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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.