Picture Energy: America's Electric Co-ops Meet in Nashville
NRECA's PowerXchange
Enjoy photos of what went on in Nashville.
NRECA's PowerXchange: Suzanne Lane
Kansas Electric Power Cooperative
“For Winter Storm Uri in 2021, we were part of those historic curtailments. That highlighted we can’t continue our traditional mindset that reliability is keeping wires in the air. That was the old way of thinking. It has evolved into the fuel deliverability, availability aspects of it.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Buddy Hasten
Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas
“Our challenge is the pace at which people are being forced into a clean-energy transition with resources that don’t have the capability to carry the load. We’re seeing blackouts. For us, it’s maybe slowing things down a bit.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Chris Jones
Middle Tennessee Electric
“To best serve our fast-growing service area and meet evolving member expectations, we have engaged in strategic acquisitions, which is a bit unique for the co-op space. We delivered broadband. We acquired a local for-profit telephone company, United Communications.”
NRECA's PowerXchange: Jim Matheson
NRECA
“We’re different because we’re not like for-profit entities. We serve usually the hardest to the most expensive places in America based on lack of population density.”
Cooperative Power Comes Together Again in Nashville
NRECA's PowerXchange
Conversations with NRECA CEO Jim Matheson, Middle Tennessee Electric CEO Chris Jones, Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas CEO Buddy Hasten, and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative CEO Suzanne Lane.
It's Conference Season, What We're Hearing
Snippets from CERAWeek by S&P Global.
Snippets from CERAWeek by S&P Global.
On the Front Line in Ukraine
Ukraine’s energy security was the topic of the first 2023 online talk by DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko, on January 25. And Public Utilities Fortnightly’s Editor-in-Chief Lori Burkhart covered it.
DTEK is the largest private investor in Ukraine’s energy sector. As of this discussion, one hundred thirty-three of DTEK’s employees have died, twenty-four are missing, four are in captivity, and three hundred twenty-two have been wounded. Despite that heavy toll, Timchenko is determined to keep the lights on, and looks ahead to rebuilding Ukraine’s energy future.
Natural Gas Price Nosedive, Effects
Prices haven’t been this low since September of 2020. Indeed, except for brief periods over the last twenty years — May 2019 to September 2020, October 2015 to June 2016, February 2012 to April 2012 – natural gas has traded for more than it has been presently since the opening years of this century; usually much more.