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Investor-owned utilities are private, monopoly utilities that generate and distribute power to you, the electric customer, over their defined service territory.

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City utilities — also known as municipal utilities or “munis” — are public, not-for-profit utilities owned by local governments that typically purchase power from a larger utility or local energy markets.

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Rural electric cooperatives are not-for-profit utilities that are owned by their customers, or members. We like to call them member-owners!

Movement Spotlight

. . Locating that compressor station right in the midst of the community. I guess they were anticipating nobody speaking up. And lo and behold came Friends of Buckingham. ”

–Ella Rose from Union Hill, Virginia on the defeat of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

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The USDA’s Rural Energy for America Program

Farmers and rural businesses have a new opportunity to save money on energy costs and create backup systems to protect their energy supply during severe storms, thanks to new funding in the Inflation Reduction Act. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Renewable Energy...

Electric Co-op Action Page

As a co-op member-owner, you have a right to help manage your utility. This means that you have the right to help determine where your co-op gets its energy from, how much your electric rates are, and what path your co-op takes to modernize and adopt cheaper and...

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