We Are America’s Electric Cooperatives

Millions of rural American families and businesses are stuck on the wrong side of the digital divide. And where no one else will provide the service, electric co-ops have found a way. Motivated by people, not profits, and the needs of their communities, electric co-ops are making rural broadband a reality.

• N.M. Co-op Expanding Broadband to All Zuni Nation Members by Summer
• Pulling Out All the Stops: Colorado Co-op Connects Students to Broadband
• Thinking Big: Small Missouri Co-op Made Early Bet on Broadband’s Promise
• Podcast: The Ins and Outs of the FCC’s Biggest Rural Broadband Auction
• ‘Boy, I Want to See That’: Broadband History From a Mississippi Porch
• Iowa Co-op Steps Up to Plate With Broadband for the Field of Dreams
• Virginia Co-op Finds Three Ways to Deliver Broadband to Rural Residents

Electric co-ops are built by, and belong to, the communities they serve. As we innovate to meet tomorrow’s energy needs, that focus on people instead of profits will lead to stronger rural communities.

• S.C. Co-op Opens Channels to Its Growing Hispanic Community
• Georgia Co-op Employee Creates ‘$1 Thursdays’ to Help Neighbors in Need
• ‘Awesome Day’: Minnesota Co-op Hosts Young Cancer Survivor
• Undoing Injustice: North Carolina Co-op Works to Empower Black Landowners
• Seven Co-ops Take Top 10 Spots in J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Poll
• Co-op Helps an Alaska Community With Its Most Sacred Task

Electric co-ops keep the lights on at a cost that their member-consumers can afford. And in order to meet tomorrow’s energy needs, co-ops have invested more than $50 billion over the last five years to modernize their systems, preserve reliability and create a more resilient grid.

• Co-op Manages Reliability Through Alaska’s Harshest Extremes
• ‘The Critical Conduit’: GRE’s Priti Patel Calls for Focus on Transmission
• Trends Escalate Value of Reliable, Resilient Power, Co-op Leaders Say
• NRECA Pioneers Dual-Disaster Tabletop Drill With Co-ops, State Officials
• Visualizing the Resilient Grid
• Co-op Demo of Sensor Technology Reduces Wildfire Risk, Improves Reliability
• Infographic: What Can Utility Drones Do?
• Podcast: Understanding Essence, a Co-op-Created Cyber-Defense System
• Q&A: Texas Co-ops Weigh In on Grid Reforms a Year After 2021 Freeze

Electric cooperatives are advancing energy technology in rural America. Co-ops from Alaska to North Carolina established the first rural microgrids, a co-op in Minnesota pioneered the first electric school bus program, and co-ops have accelerated community solar development faster than anyone else.

• North Carolina Co-ops Launch Battery Project for Utility-Scale Storage
• Small Wisconsin Co-op Helps Form Regional EV Charging Network
• Carbon Capture and Storage: Success at ITC Showcases Energy Innovation
• Podcast: Making Solar Power Accessible to Low-Income Members
• Flipping the Switch on Electric School Buses
• Colorado Co-op Helps Disaster-Prone Mountain Community Build Microgrid
• ‘Proving the Concept’: N.C. Co-op Tests Innovative EV-to-Grid Charger
• Podcast: Harnessing Distributed Wind—Inside the RADWIND Project