April 25, 2024

As a member of the electric cooperative family, you know the vital role electric co-ops play in ensuring always-available access to reliable, affordable power. We need your help: Stand up to federal regulators who want to shut down dependable power sources. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that U.S. power demand will reach its highest levels in 2024 and 2025. Despite this, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with regulations that threaten to close always-available power plants and make it harder to build new ones. With a growing reliance on electricity to power our economy and everyday lives,...

April 18, 2024



April 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy revised its rule on electricity distribution transformers this week, which will ease supply chain challenges and ultimately support electricity reliability and grid resilience. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) pushed for the change after speaking with Ohio’s Electric Cooperatives president and CEO, Pat O’Loughlin. Brown stated this week the DOE rule change will protect domestic production of transformers and preserve Ohio jobs. The Department of Energy had proposed a rule that would have required all electrical distribution transformers to shift from the industry standard grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) cores to amorphous cores. This...