Many electric cooperatives offer free installation of load control switches to their members, sometimes with incentives.
The utility feared loss of territory to rural electric cooperatives.
Elsewhere, rural electric cooperatives provide much of the power.
The electric cooperatives were eager to refinance the Federal loans, which carry interest rates of far more than 10 percent.
These interest free federal loans can be issued by electric cooperatives, government entities, and certain lenders.
It includes 12 rural and one municipal electric cooperatives which are all located within the state of Iowa.
At present, four electric cooperatives combine to supply the area with stable power from the national grid.
It considers itself the fifth-largest rural electric cooperative in Arkansas.
Among the hardest hit in Alabama were rural homes and businesses served by electric cooperatives.
The magazine serves rural, small town, and suburban Texans who are members of electric cooperatives.