December 3, 2025 | Press Release
Prairie Rivers Network has launched the 2025 Illinois Rural Electric Cooperative Scorecard, ranking Illinois rural electric cooperatives on 16 metrics.
Rural Electric Cooperatives
Energy Democracy in Action: Inside a Rural Co-op Election
September 4, 2025 | Blog Post
Voting for the board of your local electric cooperative is a social affair, where voting is performed in-person at the co-op’s annual meeting…
As Department of Energy ERA Funding Re-Opens, Adams Electric Cooperative Celebrates Current Success
December 6, 2024 | Blog post
Adams Electric’s ambitious project involves the construction of a 1 MW wind turbine and a 1 MW solar array…
Expanding the Fight Against Climate Change
April 17, 2024 | Blog Post
Illinois has made historic progress in building a thriving and equitable clean energy economy with the passage of the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA). We are working to bring CEJA’s programs…
The Time is Now for Electric Cooperatives to Empower Rural Illinois Communities
June 27, 2023 | Blog Post
The Empowering Rural America Program (New ERA) is the largest investment in rural electrification since 1936, and an unprecedented opportunity to hasten the clean energy transition for rural electric cooperatives.
