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From March 23, 2023 post.
Rural utilities turn ‘disruptive’ as they embrace renewables.
Last year, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Inc. hit a long-awaited milestone: It met 100 percent of its daytime energy demand with solar power.
The New Mexico utility’s achievement was the result of years of new solar construction and power purchase agreements — steps that the small, rural cooperative was only able to take after making a radical change to its management structure.
In 2016, Kit Carson left the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc.
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