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A Legacy of the New Deal, Electric Cooperatives Struggle to Democratize and Make a Green Transition FDR program to electrify rural America is now beset by expensive coal plants and often-hidebound governing boards, as members clamor for transparency and renewables. President Roosevelt delivers a speech at the dedication of the U.S. Rural Electrification Project. Credit: Getty Images Related Share this article What began three years ago as a campaign to stop the spraying of weedkiller under powe...

Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post According to Jessica Matlock, CEO of La Plata Electric Association, the cooperatives board is talking to Tri-State Generation and Transmission about producing more of its power locally in part as an economic development opportunity. Two other co-ops, the Delta-Montrose Electric Association and the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative in Taos, N.M. have reached agreements to break their contracts. A little over a year ago, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Associat...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Some of the COVID-19 graphic...

Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC), one of the newest in U.S., risks closure due to market forces December 16, 2020 (IEEFA)—Retiring the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center (VCHEC) will bring unnecessarily abrupt economic hardship to Wise County if state and local officials do not begin to plan now for a transition, concludes a report published today by the Institute for Energy Economic and Financial Analysis. The 8-year-old coal-fired power plant, owned by Dominion Energy through its ...