- July 12, 2018Mississippi’s utility regulator, the Public Service Commission, wants to permit electric cooperatives to offer broadband to its customers. PSC Commissioner Presley,…
- January 16, 2018Cooperatives provide high-speed broadband services in metropolitan and rural areas throughout the country. So they should pay attention to the…
- January 16, 2018Part II of the series on the impact of tax reform on cooperatives discusses the changes to Unrelated Business Income…
- January 9, 2018On December 22, 2017, Congress’ new tax reform bill became law as Public Law 115-97 (the “Act”). The Act substantially…
- December 1, 2017The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this month the recipients of over $200 million in loans and grants…
- August 3, 2017The U.S. House of Representatives recently advanced two electric cooperative priorities, which are now headed to the Senate for full…
- July 2, 2017The versatile reciprocating engine is increasingly being selected to meet the challenges faced not only by commercial users but also…
- February 6, 2017The following article is reprinted with permission from CFC Solutions Newsletter (17 January 2017, Vol.19, No.2) Capital credits retired by…
- January 20, 2017The following article is reprinted from CFC Solutions News Bulletin (17 January 2018, Volume 19, Number 2). With more electric…
- January 11, 2017In 2011, Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative (EMEC) entered into a contract with First Wind Holdings, LLC and four of its…
- December 27, 2016Bioenergy is energy derived from biofuels, produced directly or indirectly from organic material called biomass. It is the single largest…
- September 2, 2016In October 2015, a New Mexico jury found Tri-State Generation and Transmission partly responsible for the largest wildfire in the…
- July 29, 2016Most Americans have multiple high-speed wireless choices when it comes to Internet access but many residents living in the less-populated,…
- July 17, 2016In June 2011, a devastating wildfire swept through New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest, blackening over 156,000 acres, destroying 63…
- May 25, 2016Iowa coop Raccoon Valley Electric has plans to go carbon-free, and its first step is to purchase enough Renewable Energy…
- May 19, 2016After decades of casual conversations, two Idaho coops are now seriously discussing a merger which if successful could save members…
- April 12, 2016What happens when a utility cooperative’s largest customer goes belly up? Industrial and commercial customers can be the largest accounts…
- March 24, 2016CFC Solutions Newsletter (Monday, 21 March 2016) The latest short-term outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) pegs natural…
- February 4, 2016In 1988, the Tennessee Legislature changed state law to give rural electric cooperatives a temporary, four-year city and county property…
- January 26, 2016Last May, the Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperative (MTEMC) and the City of Murfreesboro signed a memo of understanding (MOU)…
- December 21, 2015The following article was published in the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) Solutions NewsBulletin, December 14, 2015, Vol.…
- November 11, 2015It took over ten years, but the dispute over coal transportation costs between Berkshire Hathaway-owned BNSF Railway and the regional…
- October 15, 2015A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a regulation that requires the increased production of energy from renewable energy sources, such…
- August 26, 2015By Richard R Oswald Once upon a time, telegraphs and kerosene lamps were state of the art. Telephones and 110-volt…
