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Keeping You Safe

North Carolina’s electric cooperatives are committed to putting safety first. Our top priority is protecting our members, our employees and the communities we serve while providing reliable electricity that powers your daily life. We also seek to empower our members to make smart decisions while using electricity, and when faced with emergency situations like hurricanes and winter storms.

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Nov 13

Feature

N.C. Electric Cooperatives to Bring Electricity to Rural Bolivia

Volunteers from North Carolina’s electric cooperatives will soon be heading to Bolivia to build power line infrastructure that will bring electricity – for the first time – to a rural Bolivian village. The Brighter World Initiative is being coordinated…

Nov 8

News

Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative Donation Supports Analog Emergency Communications

Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative recently made a $1,000 donation to the Fessenden Amateur Radio Society (named for inventor and 1800s radio pioneer R.A. Fessenden). The donation was met with an additional $1,000 from North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives and will…

Nov 6

Feature

Co-ops Secure Funding for Fire Departments through USDA Loan and Grant Program

Two North Carolina electric cooperatives recently helped fire departments in their service territories attain zero-interest loans through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant (REDLG) program. Piedmont Electric, based in Hillsborough, assisted the North…

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N.C. Electric Cooperatives to Bring Electricity to Rural Bolivia

Cape Hatteras Electric Cooperative Donation Supports Analog Emergency Communications

Co-ops Secure Funding for Fire Departments through USDA Loan and Grant Program