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RE Magazine | September 2014 Cover Story From the beginning, electric co-ops have been about two essential things: providing power and connecting with the communities and members they serve. But rapid changes in operational and communications technologies...

Welcome to episode twelve of the Building Local Power podcast. For full transcript of the podcast, click here. In this episode, Christopher Mitchell, the director of ILSR’s Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Hannah Trostle and Karlee...

Chances are that if you're in America, the computer from which you're reading drew its electricity from a commercial power company. Commercial power companies are investor-owned companies that produce energy through a variety of means - coal, natural...

A lineman works aloft for Volunteer Energy Cooperative, an area business whose profits are returned to shareholders in the form of lower electricity rates. I have proposed that to enhance the prosperity of the hometown that its best people create an...

In the US, rural areas and constituencies have typically weighed against progress on clean energy. But that may be changing. A new story out of Wisconsin illustrates that a slow, tentative shift is underway, as rural electricity consumers and the utilities...