Cooperative Leaders: Dan Waddle
NRECA Annual Meeting
"We’ve just completed a planning process in Uganda, where we started by geo-referencing the existing transmission distribution infrastructure."
Cooperative Leaders: Brian Sloboda and Shawn Barry
NRECA Annual Meeting
"If your HVAC system is not running efficiently, we’re using AI in that thermostat data in order to say, hey, this is about to break."
Cooperative Leaders: Jon Brekke
NRECA Annual Meeting
"Anybody who buys an EV on our system gets renewable energy at 100% for the life of that car at no additional cost."
Cooperative Leaders: Pat O'Loughlin
NRECA Annual Meeting
"As AEP has slowly gotten out of the generation business in Ohio, it became clear it was better for us to take responsibility for operating."
Cooperative Leaders: Mike Couick
NRECA Annual Meeting
"Ninety-five percent of South Carolina co-ops are built out with some form of two-way communication into the home."
Cooperative Leaders: Marcus Harris
NRECA Annual Meeting
"That transmission build-out regulatory gap between what states regulate, and what FERC regulates, is missing something in the middle."
What Cooperative Leaders Had to Say at NRECA Annual Meeting
Unique conversations
Leaders celebrated strengths found in the American cooperative network.
Diversity 2019: Laron Evans and Michelle Word
Workplace Diversity
"When you’re faced with a problem, if you have a diverse group sitting around the table, you’re going to get that problem solved quicker. That’s what the data shows."
Diversity 2019: Carmen Jandacek
Workplace Diversity
"I look at diversity as the company’s job, to make sure that we have a diverse workforce that represents the communities we serve."
Diversity 2019: Christine Carmody and Doreen Nichols
Workplace Diversity
"We have almost 700 members who make up the women, multicultural, young professional, veterans, and new hires business resource groups."