Electric Cooperatives: Going Beyond The Wires

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Electric Cooperatives: Going Beyond the Wires

One day in July, a girl named Alexis and her dad were reading a story before bedtime as the lights start flickering. “Daddy, why are the lights doing that?” she said terrified holding onto her dad’s arm. “Don’t worry sweetheart, that happens a lot because of the electric company. I am calling a new company tomorrow to get it fixed.” He walks out of the room after giving his daughter a goodnight kiss and heads to bed himself.

The next morning as the father wakes up, he looks for his phone and dials the number for the new electric company. He reads in the paper that this company also also

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