NCGвЂ™s Carbon Offset Program Now Supports 837,000 Rainforest Trees NCBA CLUSA announces launch of Congressional Cooperative Business CaucusД¬HS reports $266.5 million first quarter earnings for fiscal 2016 Judy Ziewacz named new NCBA CLUSA President and CEO NCBA CLUSA programs represented at White House Summit on Global Development as President Obama signs Global Food Security Act NCBA CLUSA urges Congress to uphold tax policy that supports cooperatives The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is the national service organization that represents the nationвЂ™s more than 900 private, not-for-profit, consumer-owned electric cooperatives, which provide service to 42 million people in 47 states.

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative (NH).

Prairie Energy Cooperative (Corn Belt Power Member, IA).

Iowa Lakes Electric Cooperative (Corn Belt Power Member, IA).

Humboldt County Rural Electric Cooperative (Corn Belt Power Member, IA).

Calhoun County Electric Cooperative Association (Corn Belt Power Member, IA).

Adams-Columbia Electric Cooperative (WI).

Cyber security consultants SAIC and Cigital will work with the cooperatives to explore security issues surrounding enhanced interoperability and connectivity. This project will extend the MultiSpeak specification to new functions and applications and include cybersecurity in the testing process. The cooperativesвЂ™ demonstration project represents the first opportunity to conduct a nationwide pilot extending and testing end-to-end connectivity вЂ“ from the power plant to the consumerвЂ™s home вЂ“ and interoperability using MultiSpeakВ®, a specification developed by NRECA through the MultiSpeak Initiative. According to research conducted by NRECA, approximately half of cooperatives have installed at least some advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) on their systems, and some 30 percent of cooperatives have begun to integrate their AMI with other systems on their grid. According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), cooperativesвЂ™ advanced metering penetration increased from 3.8 percent in 2006 to 16.4 percent in 2008 вЂ“ well above the industry as a whole. On the other side of the meter, co-ops will also test new programs that help consumers manage electric bills.Д¬ooperatives are well-positioned to advance the implementation of a smart grid.

вЂњOur cooperatives will be evaluating how and whether these technologies can assist them in their mission to provide safe, reliable and affordable electric power to their member-consumers,вЂќ English said.Д®lectric distribution cooperatives, which range in size from a few hundred to more than 200,000 meters, will evaluate potential benefits of new technologies that could help increase operational efficiencies and improve service. вЂњCooperatives lead the industry in the deployment of smart meter infrastructure and can help drive the effort to modernize the nationвЂ™s electrical system using new technologies,вЂќ said NRECA CEO Glenn English.

With the final approval of a $33.9 million matching grant to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association from the Department of Energy, nineteen electric cooperatives now embark on a unique, nationwide demonstration project deploying more than 153,000 smart grid components across the country to test the value of the new technologies for cooperative consumer members.ДЄuthorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the smart grid research grants, together with the $3.4 billion in smart grid investment grants, are part of a federal initiative to identify and develop new and more effective smart grid technologies.

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