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The small crowd sat mostly still, sharing quiet whispers of conversation, creating a general soft hum about the room. It had been a long but exciting day, and the group remained long after the session had ended, exchanging their thoughts and swapping their own tales of surprise. Interspersed throughout all the subtle mutterings was the repeated exclamation, “I didn’t know I owned an electric company!”
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- 1.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance, “A New Logo, and a Definition of Energy Democracy,” January 12, 2017, https://ilsr.org/a-new-logo-and-a-definition-of-energy-democracy.
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J. J. McMurtry and Derya Mumtaz Tarhan, “Energy Democracy: A Liberatory Conceptualization,” accessed April 20, 2017, http://www.ciriec.ulg.ac.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/REIMS-TARHAN-CA.pdf.
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New York State Energy Democracy Alliance, “EDA Response to the Release of the Report on Low-Income Participation in Shared Solar” (2015), accessed April 20, 2017, http://energydemocracyny.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/EDA-Response-to-the-Release-of-the-Report-on-Low_final.pdf.
- 4.
America’s Electric Cooperatives, “History,” accessed January 12, 2017, http://www.electric.coop/our-organization/history.
- 5.
Ibid. Note: The REA later became the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and falls under the auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture.
- 6.
Ibid.
- 7.
Ibid.
- 8.
Ibid.
- 9.
America’s Electric Cooperatives, “Understanding the Seven Cooperative Principles,” accessed December 01, 2016, www.electric.coop/seven-cooperative-principles%E2%80%8B.
- 10.
Henry Leiferman and Pat Wehner, “A Question of Power: Race and Democracy in Rural Electric Co-ops,” Journal of the Southern Regional Council 18, no. 34 (1996).
- 11.
University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, “Rural Electric Overview,” Research on the Economic Impact of Cooperatives, accessed April 20, 2017, www.electric.coop/category/cooperative-advantage/coop-101.
- 12.
Ibid.
- 13.
America’s Electric Cooperatives, http://www.electric.coop/category/cooperative-advantage/coop-101.
- 14.
Carmen DeNava-Walt and Bernadette Proctor, “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014” (Census Library Publications, 2015), accessed January 09, 2017, www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.pdf.
- 15.
Steven Johnson, “Robert Reich on Co-ops,” America’s Electric Cooperatives (October 23, 2016), accessed April 20, 2017, www.electric.coop/robert-reich-on-cooperatives-international-summit/.
- 16.
Leiferman and Wehner, “A Question of Power” (see n. 10).
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
“Internal Memorandum: Non-compliance,” to Brandon Presley from Interested Parties, Re: Initial Inquiry into MPA Capital Credits Policies, September 2014.
- 19.
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the National Rural Cooperative Finance Corporation, Capital Credit Task Force Report, ch. 2, p. 24 (2005).
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Johnson, D., Lewis, A. (2017). Organizing for Energy Democracy in Rural Electric Cooperatives. In: Fairchild, D., Weinrub, A. (eds) Energy Democracy. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-852-7_6
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