“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.

“There are big success stories. Like the AEP project in Texas, Lower Rio Grande Valley, when they had to increase capacity on the 345-kV cable lines and couldn’t take them out. They had to do it live and reconductored them.”