{"id":783,"date":"2026-04-20T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/rural-co-ops-navigate-a-new-era-of-load-growth-rising-costs-and-policy-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:53:10","slug":"rural-co-ops-navigate-a-new-era-of-load-growth-rising-costs-and-policy-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/rural-co-ops-navigate-a-new-era-of-load-growth-rising-costs-and-policy-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Co-ops Navigate a New Era of Load Growth, Rising Costs, and Policy Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of relatively flat electricity demand, the U.S. power sector is suddenly racing to keep up\u2014and rural electric cooperatives, which serve 42 million people across 54% of the nation\u2019s land mass, are feeling the squeeze as acutely as anyone. As a guest on The POWER Podcast, Jim Matheson, CEO of the National Rural Electric [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/rural-co-ops-navigate-a-new-era-of-load-growth-rising-costs-and-policy-pressure\/\">Rural Co-ops Navigate a New Era of Load Growth, Rising Costs, and Policy Pressure<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Rural-electric-cooperative-USDA\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rural-electric-cooperative-usda.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rural-electric-cooperative-usda.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rural-electric-cooperative-usda-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rural-electric-cooperative-usda-768x576.jpg 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of relatively flat electricity demand, the U.S. power sector is suddenly racing to keep up\u2014and rural electric cooperatives, which serve 42 million people across 54% of the nation\u2019s l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/admiralvehicles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}