CO-OP ADVANTAGE
Of the four types of cooperative businesses, not producer, buyer, or worker, but this type, which includes electric cooperatives.
What is a consumer cooperative?
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?
This non-partisan program focuses on enhancing the political strength of electric cooperatives through voter engagement. The goal is to boost voter turnout in cooperative areas.
What is Co-ops Vote?
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.?
Commonly known as smart metering, these metering systems use two-way communication and solid-state meters to measure electric use by homes and businesses more precisely than before.
What is advanced metering infrastructure, or "AMI"?
No horses or lariats are needed for this generous program, begun in 1989 at Palmetto Electric Cooperative as a way to pay the bills of less fortunate co-op members. It has since been replicated by countless co-ops across the county.
What is Operation Round Up?
This five-year accident report from Federated provides insights about the causes, frequency, and severity of electrical contacts by the public, and it can be viewed on a nationwide, state or individual system basis.
What is The Public Contact Summary?
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?
The Arctic Fox is the only mammal native to this island nation, the first nation ever to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources.
What is Iceland?
This alphanumerical name is not a Star Wars droid. It's a partnership between NRECA and the Dept. of Energy, and it focuses on providing cybersecurity tools for small- and medium-sized cooperatives that have few, or no, information technology staff.
What is the RC3? (of Rural Cooperative Cybersecurity Capabilities Program)
This NRECA program is not as "youthful" as it may seem. It sprang from a suggestion by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson that electric co-ops could benefit young people by "sending them to the national capital where they can actually see what the flag stands for and represents.”.
What is the Rural Electric Youth Tour?
This recent NRECA report recommends co-ops use “a Common Language for a Shared Story” when talking to our memb…. our consum… when talking to the communities we serve.
What is the Lexicon Project?
Holy PAC, Batman! The year 1966 brought the debuts of the Batman TV series, the US Department of Transportation, and this political action committee for the nation's electric co-ops.
What is the Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE)?
The host of the 2016 summer Olympics, this country is the largest exporter of coffee and the leading nation in hydroelectric generation.
What is Brazil?
Drawing its name from a male, stingerless bee, more and more co-ops are using this tool to view storm damage, to assist with vegetation management, and to conduct pole inspections.
What is a drone?
This program provides access to national and local discounts for members of Touchstone Energy Cooperatives. Over the years, co-op members have saved millions of dollars on cars, prescription drugs, groceries and more.
What is the Co-op Connections Card?
This is NRECA's monthly flagship magazine, which features co-op human interest stories, thought pieces, and technology articles.
What is RE Magazine and/or REmagazine.com?
Begun in this year, NRECA was originally founded to address the shortage of electric construction materials during World War II. Seventy-six years later, it's mission and its influence have expanded just a little.
What is 1942?
Surprisingly, soccer originated in this country. Less surprisingly, the same country is the largest consumer of energy in the world.
What is China?
In 2017, multiple car manufacturers announced true innovation in electric cars, but only this auto company announced that all of its cars will either be hybrid or fully electric by 2019.
What is Volvo?