“Electric Cooperatives have a tradition of building what they need and defending what they’ve built. As the network expands to meet the needs of our growing communities, NRECA is working with member co-ops to lay the foundation for a new generation of co-op power plants. This effort has begun in the halls of Congress and the administration offices where rural power policy and support are debated and administered.

Even before the steel goes in the ground the heavy political lifting has begun. Co-op advocates remain in constant contact with their elected officials and, supported by NRECA staff, provide the grassroots muscle to defend co-op interests and win enactment of new policies that recognize the cooperative difference and open federal incentives to our not-for-profit business model.

As the national trade association representing America’s only consumer-owned electric utility network NRECA has one overarching tenet: to ensure that the men and women who manage, direct and carry out the day-to-day operations at more than 900 electric co-ops have access to the resources and support necessary to keep the light on and the rates affordable for 40 million consumers.”

Ronald R. Bergh, President, NRECA Board of Directors

NRECA Annual Report 2006 (PDF | 937 KB)