“We are seeing lead times of up to a year for critical materials such as transformers, meter sockets, wire, and some hardware, with some lead times on other non-critical material reaching 70 weeks. This requires our salespeople to engage with customers in planning ahead and ordering early.”

“Direct Pay could be transformational for electric cooperatives and give them the opportunity to make significant investments in these emerging technologies.”

Almost 8,000 attended NRECA's 2022 Annual Meeting, now called PowerXchange.

Russia’s brutal aggression has reversed German attitudes and policy perhaps. Germans are increasingly realizing that they must balance the transformation to net zero with the other imperatives of energy systems, those being reliability, affordability, and national security.

Association of Edison Illuminating Companies’ Leadership has reached out to encourage utilities to sign up to use the Mutual Assistance Resource Coordination software tool. There are eight utilities ready to utilize MARC once it’s rolled out to production this year.