A poisonous gas created during the combustion of fossil fuels when sulfates combine with oxygen.

Activities conducted on the utility’s side of an electric meter.

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A program created by NRECA in 2003 that allows residential electric co-op consumers to participate in the Action Committee for Rural Electrification.

A political action committee formed by NRECA in 1966 that gives financial support to congressional and state legislative candidates friendly to electric co-ops. ACRE does not get involved in presidential, gubernatorial, statewide row office, judicial, or municipal races. Forty-nine percent of all ACRE funds are returned to state ACRE committees, ba [..]

A comprehensive set of technologies and software applications that enable two-way communications with a smart meter and provide electric utilities—using frequent meter reads—with near real-time oversight of system operations.

Similar businesses or groups that pool purchasing power to negotiate for better electricity prices.

Brokers, utilities, or other parties that put retail consumers into electric power buying groups to negotiate for the lowest possible electricity costs, or that sell demand response from multiple retail consumers into the wholesale market.

Includes all forms of enterprises involved in getting food from field to table, ranging from producing, processing, storing, and distributing commodities to manufacturing and selling farm equipment and supplies.

A Washington, D.C.-based national service organization representing municipal electric utilities.