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Microgrids and Resiliency

Fully integrated distributed energy solutions to help businesses, asset managers and utility operators control their costs and minimize their environmental impact. Expert engineers design every energy system in-house — from autonomous microgrids to emergency backup power to end-to-end energy efficiency improvements. 


microgrids

Advanced microgrid systems designed to deliver continuous and redundant power generation — even during blackouts and other grid disruptions. Through our partnership with PowerSecure, a part of the Southern Company, NRTC can offer microgrid solutions that integrate seamlessly with the existing electricity network, which autonomously generate and store energy so that you can continue powering your operations. Equally important, they are source-agnostic, allowing you to balance your energy mix for increased redundancy and resiliency. 


generators

An electric utility’s commercial and industrial (C&I) members represent an important part of their load profile. Through PowerSecure, NRTC can help our co-op members provide tangible demand management to these valuable members — leveraging back-up generation to meet back-up power requirements and avoid high-cost power and demand charges. Best of all, it does so by leveraging assets the C&I member already has in place. 

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Suwannee Valley Begins AMI Project

NRTC and Itron representatives gathered last week in the offices of Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative, Live Oak, FL, to kick off a major advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) project. The multi-year deployment will eventually link about 28,500 electric meters, including more than 27,000 rural residences.

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NRTC/NRECA Benchmarking Report Updates Electrics’ Broadband Progress

NRTC and NRECA have released the latest update of their Rural Broadband Benchmarking Report, which refreshes numbers published in a previous 2022 report. Insights into rural broadband deployment numbers, costs, competition, economic benefit to rural economies and other topics are based on survey responses from 78 NRTC/NRECA members.

Nuclear-Powered Data Centers Could Lead to Competition for Rural Electrics

Some rural electric providers expect headaches supplying electricity for internet data centers. But many data center owners are planning to build their own electric generation on-site, bypassing the utility. In addition, they hope to attract new manufacturers and other potential rural key accounts to share electric facilities in the same industrial enclave. Most early independent generators likely will run on natural gas, but some investors already have begun small on-site nuclear reactor projects.

Rolling! Voices of Rural Telecom: Justin Jahnz

Rolling! Voices of Rural Telecom is a new video series highlighting Members from across the country. This episode features Justin Jahnz, President/CEO of East Central Energy (ECE).

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