Colorado Rural Electric Cooperatives

Visit the value of membership section to explore what nreca does for and on behalf of member co ops including links to valuable resources.

Colorado rural electric cooperatives.

Watch our informational meeting video. Bridging the digital divide for co op members and enhancing the co op business operation network allowing the co op and members to adopt emerging energy. Many electric cooperatives have. Nreca represents more than 900 consumer owned not for profit electric cooperatives public power districts and public utility districts across america.

Colorado has two investor owned electric utilities black hills energy and public service company of colorado known as xcel energy. Florida co op is backbone for wider access to rural mental health. Learn about america s electric cooperatives their trade association nreca and how the cooperative business model creates community focused organizations. The meeting has been postponed until 2021.

Coloradans are also served by 29 municipal utilities and 22 rural electric cooperatives. Colorado rural electric association. 5400 washington street denver co 80216. This connectivity serves two key purposes.

Read more now. Since municipal and cooperative utilities are not operated as for profit corporations they are not regulated by the puc. The san luis valley fair s 118th event was appropriately themed every fair has a story this year s story had a slightly different plot than previou. Many such cooperatives exist in the rural united states and were created by the new deal to bring electric power and telephone service to rural areas when the nearest investor owned utility would not provide service believing there would be insufficient revenue to justify the capital expenditures required.

Due to covid 19 and recommendations by the cdc the co op is unable to hold our annual meeting this year. Electric cooperatives send line crews to alabama to help restore power outages caused by hurricane sally more than 110 lineworkers from 11 of north carolina s electric cooperatives are traveling to alabama today to help restore power to thousands of people who were left in the dark because of hurricane sally.