technology

Man with baby in backpack and woman stand on bridge in front of a waterfall.

In the middle of one night this past July, Pioneer Electric Cooperative experienced an outage affecting 1,041 members.

Leading the way

Electric cooperatives are not strangers to overcoming challenges. Co-ops were born because bringing power to rural America was (and remains) a difficult task that for-profit utilities wanted no part of.

That explains why, from their beginnings, electric cooperatives have been at the forefront of developing, adopting, and using cutting-edge technology — not because it’s fun and fancy, but because it’s a necessity.