For more than 90 years, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has been a driver of progress in North Alabama. Created in 1933 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, TVA was a promise to rural Americans that they would not be left behind, and that power, jobs, and opportunity weren’t just reserved for the […]
If you haven’t heard, Energy Alabama has released an updated scorecard evaluating the performance of Alabama’s rural electric cooperatives in areas such as democratic governance, member services, and access to clean energy, to name a few. Energy Alabama represents one of seven southeastern states that are a part of Energy Democracy Y’all, an ongoing collaboration
Alabama Electric Cooperatives Rank Last in New Regional Scorecard Read More »
Rural electric cooperatives (RECs) were established in the 1930s to provide power rural areas not seen as profitable to large investor-owned utilities. In Alabama there are 22 rural electric cooperatives (RECs) providing power to over a quarter of Alabama residents (and over 70% of Alabama’s land mass). Rural electric cooperatives are member-owned (ie. customer owned),
Contact: Daniel Tait, Energy Alabama, (256) 812-1431, [email protected] Kyle Crider, Alabama Interfaith Power & Light, (205) 306–5811, [email protected] Fewer than half of Alabama’s electric cooperatives allow their member-owners to attend board meetings, half do not make their governing documents available online, and none offer community solar programs, according to a new report released today by Energy Alabama and Alabama Interfaith Power & Light. The report
