Early Days
Many who helped start local electric co-ops had this agrarian profession.
What is farming?
Lumbee River EMC energized its first home in 1941 near this town.
What is Red Springs?
The national organizations NRECA, CFC, NRTC and Touchstone are all based in what state?
What is Virginia?
This president signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in 1936.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Community ___ projects enable co-op members to take advantage of this renewable energy resource without having to own or maintain their own system.
What is solar?
The “RE” in REA stands for this, in both the Administration and the 1936 Act that empowered the first electric co-ops.
What is Rural Electrification?
On April 17, 1937, the first NC co-op switch was thrown in this county to energize the homes of 82 members.
What is Edgecombe County?
This plucky electric co-op mascot was created by an NRECA freelance artist in 1950.
Who is Willie Wiredhand?
This president’s attempt to cut funding to electric co-ops led to a grassroots effort where national co-op leaders declared: “We Protest”
Who is Richard Nixon?
The first co-op microgrid came online in 2016 on this NC island.
What is Ocracoke Island?
A key function of the REA program was to make these available for large and small electrification construction projects.
What are loans?
This acronym has been used by two groups: the first incorporated statewide association in NC, and the current material supply co-op serving NC electric cooperatives.
What is TEMA?
Co-ops were accused of hoarding this resource during WWII, which spurred the creation of a national trade association.
What is copper wire?
In 2019, this Roanoke Electric Cooperative CEO made history as NRECA’s first black board president.
Who is Curtis Wynn?
North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives have a goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by this year.
What is 2050?
In 1935, only this percent of farms in the United States received central station electric service.
What is 11 percent?
In 1948, this magazine was adopted by NC co-ops as the precursor to Carolina Country.
What is Carolina Farmer magazine?
Outside of RUS, these are the two main lenders serving electric cooperatives.
What are CFC and CoBank?
This was the first general manager for Lumbee River EMC?
Who is D.J. Dalton?
Several NC co-op EV chargers are being funded from a state settlement with this car maker.
What is Volkswagen?
Next to having the love of God in your heart, a 1940s farmer described rural electrification as this.
What is “the next greatest thing”?
A group of NC co-op managers came together in 1943 to develop a joint program addressing this.
What is Job Training & Safety?
Formed in 1984, this Lincoln, Nebraska-based NRECA subsidiary oversees benefits for electric co-op employees across the country.
What is the Cooperative Benefit Administrators?
This congressman from Arkansas became the first CEO of NRECA in 1943.
Who is Clyde T. Ellis?
This percentage of NCEMC’s current power mix is carbon-free.
What is 60 percent?