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Originally published at ilsr.org. Rural communities formed rural electric cooperatives as a way to get energy where no one else would provide it. In the 21st...
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Originally published at ilsr.org. Rural communities formed rural electric cooperatives as a way to get energy where no one else would provide it. In the 21st...
Abita Springs has claimed the title of the first community in Louisiana and among a select number of towns its size nationwide committed to...
Today, there’s a battle brewing across the US to reinvigorate a little-used law and bring it into alignment with a modern marketplace riper than...
Minnesota’s governor recently vetoed anti-renewables legislation that threatens rural solar development, but the bill’s likely resurgence means the state remains among a growing crop of Midwestern...
Ouachita Electric Cooperative, nestled deep in south-central Arkansas, is an unlikely innovator in a pair of industries struggling to adapt to shifting market dynamics:...
In this episode, Christopher Mitchell, the director of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Hannah Trostle and Karlee Weinmann, Research Associates for the Community...
The ways in which municipal and cooperative utilities procure power undermine the ethic of community service and self-reliance.
placeholderIn March of 2016, we published a report on the state of rural electric cooperatives in the current electricity market: Re-Member-ing the Electric Cooperative....
Originally published on ilsr.org. Former CEO Dwight Brown (pictured right) did a number on the Cobb Electric Membership Corporation (EMC). Cobb EMC serves around 175,000 member-owners...
Originally published on ilsr.org. This article was written by Nick Stumo-Langer, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance Energy Democracy initiative’s Communications & Research Associate. He regularly publishes...
Originally published on ilsr.org. Because they only sell 11% of the country’s electricity and they largely overlap politically conservative areas, electric cooperatives are often the...