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Billionaire-backed 'Iron-Air' Battery Maker Picks WV Site for First Factory

A battery manufacturing company with plenty of high-profile financial backing said it has picked a site for its first factory that will build “iron-air” batteries. Form Energy touts its technology…


North Dakota's Largest Coal Plant Set to Close

The largest coal-fired power plant in North Dakota is scheduled to close in 2022, with the Minnesota-based wholesale electric power cooperative that operates the facility saying the lost generation will…


Innovative Narrowband Solution for SCADA Communications

Great River Energy rolled out an extensive 700-MHz point-to-multipoint communications project within its 56,000-square-mile service area. Using high-order modulation, combined with full-duplex, multiple-input-multiple-output communications, the technology effectively doubles data capacity…


Great River Energy, NextEra Energy Resources Partner to Add 300 Megawatts of Wind Energy

January 10, 2017 02:21 PM Eastern Standard Time MAPLE GROVE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Great River Energy, a wholesale energy provider to 28 member distribution cooperatives across Minnesota, recently signed a purchase power…


Electric Co-ops Launch “Community Storage” Initiative

Electric cooperatives are poised to increase their use of electric water heaters as a demand response (DR) and energy storage tool in their service territories. The 50 million residential electric…