Rural electric cooperatives provide affordable electricity to Arizonans in historically underserved communities

Washington – Arizona Senator Kirsten Cinema met with Arizona’s Rural Electric Cooperatives (coops) to discuss lowering electricity prices for private homes in the state’s rural areas and reauthorizing the upcoming Farm Bill. We talked about prior priorities.

“We are working with the Arizona Co-op to lower energy costs for everyday Arizona families, especially those living in rural areas of the state, and to address bipartisan farm bills,” Cinema said.

The meeting was attended by representatives of local electric cooperatives across the state. Graham County, Mojave County, Sulfur Spring Valley, Nabo patchmore.

Rural power cooperatives are consumer-owned utilities that provide reliable and affordable electricity by purchasing electricity wholesale and delivering it directly to consumers. In Arizona, local power cooperatives power hundreds of thousands of homes, businesses and other places.

In the last Congress, Cinema introduced a bipartisan, bicameral law to expand access to affordable electricity by allowing local power cooperatives to coordinate loans for local utility services. Did.

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