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Like Electricity, Info is Power Too
NEW ORLEANS—What good are tools that monitor electricity consumption on a daily basis? Just ask an electric cooperative member who was building a home for his family in Georgia. Dan McClendon (l) of...
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Water Heater Standards Challenged
Electric cooperatives are calling on the U.S. Department of Energy to rethink the application of energy efficiency standards to large capacity electric water heaters, which could otherwise derail load...
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Co-ops Rally Hill on Key Issues
Member co-ops are getting a chance to have their say on Capitol Hill this week at the annual Legislative Conference, where NRECA provided a run-down of key issues as the 113th Congress gets under way....
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Co-ops Urge Water Heater Rule Change
Electric cooperatives are urging the Department of Energy to consider alternatives to a new rule that stands to phase out large-capacity electric storage water heaters that save energy and money for...
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Co-ops Backed on Water Heater Rule
Nearly 100 lawmakers on Capitol Hill are backing rural electric cooperatives when it comes to their concerns about a proposed federal standard for large capacity electric water heaters. Rep. Mick...
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Co-ops Win on Water Heater Limits
In a victory for electric cooperatives, an industrial standards organization rejected water heater restrictions that could have cost co-op members millions of dollars. Co-ops prevail as the...
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Electric Cars Could Help the Grid
For all the talk about the impact electric cars will have on utilities, there’s also the potential for them to be assets. You usually think about electric cars charging up at a station such as this one...
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House OKs Efficiency Bill For Large Water Heaters
Saving money for members is something electric cooperatives do well, and bipartisan legislation that cleared the House March 5 will keep co-ops on that path with the help of grid-enabled electric...
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Peak-Time Rebates a Win-Win for Co-ops, Members
Money talks—though not always loud enough to help your electric cooperative cut peak-time use. Truth is that even if offered an incentive, many consumers don’t want a load control device that the co-op...
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Electric Cars Could Help the Grid
Your electric cooperative can already turn off a member’s air conditioning and hot water heater. The next step in load control could involve their electric car—and a system to do that is in the works....
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Saving Co-op Power by Going Without It
Why would people willingly go without electricity—no air conditioning, fans or lights—on a hot summer day? One electric cooperative has some 2,500 members on a rate plan that allows all electricity in...
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Co-ops Win Case over FERC Demand Response Order
In a victory for electric cooperatives, a federal court rejected a request by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to review its decision against a commission order that would raise revenues for...
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Water Heater Fix Part of Keystone Bill
Legislation to keep large water heaters in the energy-efficiency toolbox of electric cooperatives has cleared the Senate as part of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline bill. Legislation to keep...
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Co-ops Urge Congress to Save Large Water Heaters
Hundreds of electric cooperatives rely on large capacity, electric-resistance water heaters in their demand response programs. But federal regulations will make them a thing of the past unless Congress...
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Water Heater Bill Clears Senate, on to House
Electric cooperatives captured a key victory when the Senate cleared long-awaited legislation to sustain grid-enabled water heaters that are critical to energy-saving demand response programs. Senate...
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NRECA Urges Congress: Save Large Water Heater
NRECA is urging Congress to act quickly to prevent a federal ban on large capacity, grid-enabled water heaters from taking effect April 16. Hundreds of electric cooperatives rely on these water heaters...
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Congress Preserves Large Water Heater Production
Electric cooperatives across the country were relieved after Congress passed legislation April 21 that will enable them to continue using large capacity grid-enabled water heaters for energy and...
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Obama Signs Co-op Water Heater Bill
President Barack Obama has signed an energy-efficiency bill that will preserve production of large grid-enabled water heaters that hundreds of electric cooperatives rely on for demand-response...
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Does Going Off the Electric Grid Make Sense?
As prices for solar photovoltaic panels and batteries drop, will electricity users cut the cord to the electric grid? Study results suggest consumers would be ill advised to pull the plug on the...
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Future of Co-op Water Heater Load Response
The future of large-capacity electric resistance water heaters in co-op demand response programs was in focus at a recent NRECA summit. Representatives of five leading water heater manufacturers...
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