The energy storage firm FlexGen has barely scratched the media surface, but apparently things have been quite busy over there. In the latest development, the North Carolina company has hooked up with its home state’s electric cooperatives in a new venture that adds 40 megawatts of punch to the rural decarbonization movement.
The Rural Decarbonization Movement
Cities get a lot of credit for their role as laboratories of change, but the nation’s sprawling network of rural electric cooperatives is carrying a decarbonization torch of its own.
For those of you new to the topic, electric cooperatives are member-owned utilities chartered under the federal government. They were formed as a Depression-era economic development program aimed at bringing electricity to farmers, most of whom were still left in the dark in the 1930’s due to lack of interest on the part of private sector…
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