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The nation's sleeping giant of hundreds of rural electric cooperatives is waking up and getting into solar power in a Green New Deal kind...
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The nation's sleeping giant of hundreds of rural electric cooperatives is waking up and getting into solar power in a Green New Deal kind...
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...
In this small community, where many Amish and Mennonite families shun electricity and cars, solar power has proliferated. In fact, the Kalona area is...
The US Energy Department announced new updates to its PV System Toolkit, a package designed to lower the cost of adding solar power by...
Exempt from state regulation in 33 states because they purportedly offer democratic and local control, new data on the nation’s rural electric cooperatives suggests...
Originally published at ilsr.org. Electric cooperatives arose from New Deal legislation that provided government-backed low-interest loans to bring electricity to rural areas that for-profit companies...
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 RMI Outlet. By Kevin Brehm and Thomas Koch Blank In a previous blog post, we explained how rural electric cooperatives could...
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Kevin Brehm and Joseph Goodman, Ph.D. This is the third in a series of blog posts on RMI’s...
Originally published on ilsr.org. Introduction Decades after cities lit the first electric lamps in the 1880s, most of the rural places of America were still...
This article originally posted at ilsr.org. This article was written by Matt Grimley, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance Energy Democracy initiative’s Research Associate. He...