Dive Brief:
- With an eye on meeting customer needs, cooperative utilities were urged to get onboard with distributed generation, especially rooftop solar at a national meeting.
- Cooperatives should develop their own distributed generation projects, panelists said during the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's (NRECA) annual meeting.
- Meanwhile, a Kansas cooperative plans to build the state's largest solar array, a 1-MW facility.
Dive Insight:
Cooperatives, which are owned by their members, are by their nature customer focused. But there may be a lesson for all utilities here. “Anything you can do to talk about what you are doing for consumers is very important,” said Nelle Hotchkiss, senior vice president, corporate relations, with the North Carolina Electric Membership Cooperative.
