CO-OP ADVANTAGE
RESOURCES
POTPOURRI
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
LEADING NATIONS
INDUSTRY INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
100
Regardless of the type of co-op, all co-ops have this guiding thread in common.
What are the seven cooperative principles?
100
NRECA’s flagship monthly magazine, features co-op focused human-interest stories, thought pieces and technology articles.
What is RE Magazine and remagazine.cooperative?
100
In this year, the Dept. of Transportation was created, the Batman TV series debuted on ABC and ACRE was established.
What is 1966?
100
Surprisingly, soccer originated in this country. Not surprising is the fact that this country is the world's largest consumer of energy.
What is China?
100
This increasing popular tool is used by many co-ops to assess damage in hard to reach locations after a storm; assist with vegetation management and pole inspections by providing a "birds' eye" view to its operators.
What is a drone?
200
This many distribution co-ops comprise the NRECA family.
What are 840?
200
The vision of this NRECA initiative is to provide veterans, service members and military spouses, with the opportunity to continue their mission of serving America’s suburban and rural communities
What is Serve Our Co-Op, Serve Our Country?
200
This non-partisan program focuses on enhancing the political strength of electric cooperatives through voter engagement. The goal of the initiative is to boost voter turnout in cooperative areas.
What is Co-ops Vote?
200
This country is the world leader in known coal reserves. It has about a 235-year supply of coal if the rate of coal consumption stays about what it is today.
What is the U.S.?
200
While some members may claim, they monitor personal information, these systems really utilize digital meters as well as computer technology to measure electric use at homes and businesses more precisely than was possible with analog meters. The digital meters communicate via radio or the existing power lines and have been loosely termed as “smart meters.”
What is advanced metering infrastructure, or "AMI"?
300
This program, intended to help pay the energy bills of less fortunate consumers, was created, registered and officially licensed by Palmetto Electric Cooperative in Hardeeville, S.C. It has since been replicated by countless co-ops across the county.
What is Operation Round Up?
300
This report is designed to provide insight as to the cause, frequency, and severity of public contact incidents over the past five years. This information can be viewed on a nationwide, state and individual system basis.
What is The Public Contact Summary?
300
NRECA International was established in November 1962 when NRECA and the newly-established U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed an inaugural cooperative agreement. The ceremony, launching NRECA’s overseas involvement to share lessons learned in the electrification of the rural U.S. with developing countries around the world, took place in the Oval Office of the White House and was witnessed by this president.
Who is John Kennedy?
300
The Arctic Fox is the only mammal native to this country. And this nation was the first ever to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources.
What is Iceland?
300
This program, in partnership with the Dept. of Energy, focuses on assisting small- and medium-sized cooperatives that have few, or no, information technology staff.
What is the Rural Cooperative Cybersecurity Capabilities Program (RC3)?
400
This popular co-op program sprang from a suggestion of then Senator Lyndon Johnson to a national gathering of co-ops. Johnson felt youth from rural areas would benefit by visiting Washington to see first-hand how government works and gain a wider perspective through the experience.
What is Youth Tour?
400
This online resource is a: portal to benefits info.; an info. hub for co-op communicators; source for news about the electric utility industry; and contains registration links for NRECA conferences and events.
What is cooperative.com?
400
In this year, Voice of America began broadcasting, the minimum draft age was lowered from 21 to 18 and NRECA was created. And for movie buffs, this was the name of a Stephen Spielberg movie starring John Belushi.
What is 1942?
400
This is the leading country for hydroelectric generation and the largest exporter of coffee.
What is Brazil?
400
The year 2017 may go down as the turning point for the electric vehicle. Multiple manufacturers released cars that represented true technological innovation. This car company went so far as to announce that all of its cars will either be hybrid or electric by 2019.
What is Volvo?
500
Providing access to national and local discounts, over the years, consumer members have saved millions of dollars on cars, prescription drugs, groceries and more using this.
What is the Co-op Connections card?
500
Each year, NRECA celebrates and recognizes Lineman Appreciation Day on this particular day and month and Straight Talk provides content to help co-ops in their endeavors.
What is the second Monday in April?
500
This four-term president issued Executive Order 7037 in 1935, establishing the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) and later signed the bill into law.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
500
This country offers free college tuition and is the leader in solar PV capacity.
What is Germany?
500
Through a grant from DOE, this program is developing a standardized “Photovoltaic system package” consisting of engineering designs, business models, financing and insurance options, and optimized procurement that can reduce the cost of utility-scale solar projects. NRECA estimates these packages can reduce engineering design costs by 25 percent, procurement costs by ten percent and insurance costs by 25 percent.
What is the "Solar Utility Network Deployment Acceleration project", or "SUNDA"?
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