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Missed Connections: Modernizing Our Multiple Grids
Climate One
The Challenges of Rural Electric Cooperatives
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Rural electric cooperatives buy most or all of their power from larger, largely fossil fuel-powered utilities. That makes it hard for local co-ops to move to more renewables because they're often limited by how much they can buy outside their main contract. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC decided that if the generating utility couldn't provide clean power, then local utilities had the ability to get out of those contracts. And this really freed up utilities all over the country to be able to have a cleaner power mix and also to build it themselves.
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