What Canada can learn from co-op power in the rural United States

What Canada can learn from co-op power in the rural United States

Once entirely dependent on coal and natural gas, some 5,500 households in sunny southwestern Arizona have been slowly transitioning to renewable-energy sources and will soon be the beneficiaries of an additional 33 megawatts (MW) of solar power injected into the grid. The extra jolt in clean energy is due to a generous infusion of federal funding secured by the Trico Electric Cooperative. Based in Marana outside Tucson, Trico received US$83.5 mi…