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Alaska-based Homer Electric Association recently completed the construction and initial testing of a 46.5 megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) located at its Soldotna Generation and Substation facility. The BESS is made up of 37 battery units capable of delivering 93 megawatt-hours over a two-hour period and was built to increase grid stability, electric power reliability and system effic...

Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corporation (NREMC) is speeding up its plans to deploy three additional batteries to be operational by the end of May 2022—almost a year ahead of schedule—due to the successful operation of its first two batteries that came on-line in July 2021. In August, NREMC charged its two batteries, 6 MW and 7 MW, with off-peak power and then successfully shaved its pea...

Inflation is currently the talk of the financial news networks with ominous headlines and warnings about what’s to come. The rise in prices causes everyone to pay more for goods and services, including electric cooperatives for their operations.   With the economy growing at just under 7 percent and supply imbalances creating bottlenecks, economists are wondering where inflation is headed near ter...

The evolving rate design landscape is being driven by new technologies, providing electric cooperatives with access to more data and insights as they adapt to changing consumer-member behaviors and needs.    Learn how smart meter data are playing an important role in the process, what factors are behind today’s rate design and what these changes could mean for electric cooperatives.    ·       How...

Electric cooperatives have a great story to tell about the cooperative business model, self-governance and their mission to provide reliable and affordable essential services to rural America. Whether intended, or not, cooperatives are well positioned to align their efforts with consumer-member and investor ESG (environmental, social and governance) expectations.   Learn how ESG principles are dri...