National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) is the trade association for electric cooperatives, which are not-for-profit companies that provide electricity to its customers or members, or generate and transmit power to other cooperatives. Cooperatives serve 42 million customers, or 12% of the country, according to NRECA.

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NRECA runs misleading pro-coal ads to sway Illinois lawmakers

As negotiations continue over a climate and energy bill in Illinois, misleading online advertisements from a group called “Voices for Cooperative Power” have appeared. The ads running in Illinois political media outlets claim that legislators are on the verge of closing the Prairie State Energy Campus, a “state-of-the-art coal plant” that has “$1 billion of...

Major co-op supports Biden coal debt relief proposal that NRECA has sought to undermine

The Biden administration, rural advocacy and environmental groups, and one of the largest cooperative power suppliers in the country are discussing proposals that could help electric cooperatives transition from coal to clean energy and avoid rate increases in rural America. But the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the national trade association for electric cooperatives,...

An “Electric Cooperative Governance Task Force Report” urging co-op transparency was kept secret until now

The national trade association for electric cooperatives commissioned a report urging its members to embrace transparency reforms, but the association has kept its findings a secret for the past two years. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the national trade association for electric cooperatives, and the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, which finances...

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