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Efficient Outdoor Lighting Tips For Better Security And Entertaining

With energy-efficient LEDs and CFLs, it is much easier to light your house effectively without driving up your electric bills. Although these bulbs, especially...

The Speed of Light(ing)

Co-ops help blaze trails for efficient lighting technology. Spurred by tighter energy efficiency standards, lighting technology is leaping forward, with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) leading the...

Michigan Co-ops Lead The Way In Renewable Energy

Sun. Water. Wind. Michiganders know these elements can make for a great day at the beach. Michigan’s electric cooperatives also know these raw energy sources...

New Hope for Nuclear in Small Modular Reactors

This article is second in a series on how electricity is generated. The first, in January, was about clean-coal technology. Watch future issues for...

Shale Shock: Natural Gas May Edge Out Coal as Nation’s Primary Power Source

This is fourth in a series on how electricity is generated. The others covered clean-coal technology, nuclear and wind power. Watch future issues for...

Efficient Indoor Lighting for Your Home

People often wonder which type of lighting to use in their home with all the choices on the market today. It is important to...

LEDs Advance Farm Lighting

One of the biggest developments in lighting our homes, businesses and streets involves the use of light emitting-diodes (LED). These lightbulbs convert electricity directly...

Legislation Would Strengthen Tie Between Our Peninsulas

By Craig Borr, CEO at Michigan Electric Cooperative Association The Mackinac Bridge opened to vehicle traffic between the upper and lower peninsulas nearly 60 years...

Top 10 Myths About Geothermal Heating, Cooling

(with apologies to David Letterman) 10. Geothermal heat pumps can only be installed in rural areas. About 15 years ago, the first McDonalds (at Ford...

Clean Power Plan Update

As a result of a Feb. 9 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, the State of Michigan has stopped efforts on its development of...

Global Comfort Food Recipes Due by January 1

Share your favorite “Global Comfort Food” recipe with us by January 1 and you could win a $100.00 credit on your electric bill. Plus,...