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District Meetings Coming Up


ECE members in Districts 4 and 7 will meet this month to nominate candidates for cooperative board of trustees. If you live in District 4 or 7, you will receive an official meeting notice in the mail.


Please save the dates and make plans to attend.


June 20, 2016 ECE District 7 Meeting 6:30 pm, Bristow Housing Authority


June 23 , 2016 ECE District 4 Meeting 6:30 pm, Muskogee Armed Forces Reserve Center


Please Notice the Notice


ECE Annual Meeting and District Meeting notices mailed to members will include a perforated registration form along the bottom.


If you plan to attend an ECE District Meeting or the ECE Annual Meeting, please bring this form to the meeting. The form will make it easier and faster for you to register at the meeting.


Meeting notices will arrive in an enclosed envelope that is clearly marked “District Meeting Notice" or "Annual Meeting Notice."


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Of all US electricity providers…


6% are investor- owned utilities


*Numbers may not add to 100% due to rounding


*Numbers may not add to 100% due to rounding


Sources: Community Solar Hub; National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; American Public Power Association 2015-2016 Annual Directory & Statistical Report


Sources: Community Solar Hub; National Rural Electric CooperativeAssociation; American Public Power Association 2015-2016 Annual Directory & Statistical Report


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Electric Co-ops Support Solar Co-ops step out to sponsor community solar projects


source. By pooling investments from multiple consumers, community solar projects provide power and/ or financial benefit in return.


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The notion is familiar to electric co-ops, which is why co-ops lead the nation when it comes to utility-sponsored solar projects. While co-ops represent only 26 percent of the nation's electricity providers, they account for more than half of U.S. community solar projects. In Oklahoma, 11 local distribution co-ops including East Central Electric are sponsoring community


ommunity solar allows many consumers to share the benefits of one local renewable energy


solar projects. Partnering in these projects is Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), a cooperative-owned generation and transmission facility serving 22 co- ops in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Billy Moore, ECE director of member services, said WFEC's participation is making it cost effective for local co-ops to offer community solar projects because they cover the majority of the costs involved.


WFEC studies show that power provided by co-op-sponsored community solar projects can help them reduce their peak, which is a key factor in wholesale costs for local co-ops and their members.


How Does Community Solar Fit Into The U.S. Electric Utility Market?


Figure 3: How does community solar fit into the broader US electric utility market?


are cooperative utilities


27%


Of all utility providers


are municipal utilities


61%


community solar programs Account for5%of total generation capacity


...yet they administer 69% of 16% community solar capacity


…yet they administer 69%


of community solar programs Account for


5% of total generation capacity


...but they administer 18% of …but they administer only


18%


community solar programs Account for 11% of total generation capacity


of community solar programs Account for


11% of total generation capacity 31% community solar capacity


...but they administer 13% of …and they account for


13%


community solar programs Account for 36% of total generation capacity


of community solar programs Account for


53% are other 7% electrity providers,


including federal power agencies and power marketers


Other electricity providers account for 48% of total generation capacity


Other electricity providers account for 48% of total generation capacity


36% of total generation capacity community solar capacity


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