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Cooperative leaders gather in front of the Capitol on Electric Cooperative Lobby Day.
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  • May 2025

Advocating for rural Illinois

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  • May 2025

USDA takes steps to release co-op funding

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  • May 2025

Belt receives Public Service Award

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  • May 2025

Smith named CEO of Eastern Illini Electric

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  • May 2025

Climbing into a career

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  • April 2025

Youth Day opens doors for future leaders

Cole Buchanan represents Illinois during PowerXchange
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  • April 2025

Buchanan represents Illinois during PowerXchange

President Jimmy Carter speaks to Youth Tour delegates on the White House lawn in 1978.
  • Currents
  • March 2025

Remembering Jimmy Carter

Clinton County Electric Cooperative employees Ahren Langhauser, Doug Vonder Haar, Mike Korte, Sam Kuhl, Mike Faust and Brian Taylor accept their co-op’s 2024 awards for Best Loss Time and Best Incident Rate. Faust also won a 2024 Safety Leadership Award.
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  • March 2025

It all starts with safety

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  • March 2025

We want to hear from you

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM FISK
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  • March 2025

D.C. changes signal positive energy impacts

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  • Currents
  • February 2025

Easements are essential

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  • February 2025

Celebrating pioneers in electricity

Photo Courtesy of Travis Deterding, Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association
  • Currents
  • February 2025

Electric co-ops work together following first major winter storm of 2025

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  • February 2025

Plant closures, surging demand pose risk to grid

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  • Currents
  • January 2025

NRECA urges Trump to support electric co-ops

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  • January 2025

NERC warns of energy shortfalls this winter

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  • January 2025

Want to be a lineworker? Apply for a scholarship

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  • January 2025

The fast-growing demand for electricity

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  • Currents
  • December 2024

Congress poised to take action on key co-op issues

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  • December 2024

Griffin named CEO of EnerStar Electric

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  • December 2024

USDA recognizes Illinois’ electric co-ops

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  • December 2024

Co-ops care

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  • November 2024

$42,500 up for grabs in scholarship funds

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  • November 2024

Illinois line crews go where needed

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  • November 2024

Not their first rodeo

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  • Currents
  • October 2024

Maneuvering supply chain challenges

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  • October 2024

Built by members, led by members

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  • October 2024

Growing rooftop solar scams prompt action

JCE Co-op board member Joe Mattingley and President/CEO Mike Casper attended the event on Sept. 5 to hear the announcement by President Joe Biden of the $579 million grant going to the co-op’s generation and transmission co-op, Dairyland Power Cooperative.
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  • October 2024

Dairyland Power awarded New ERA grant

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  • September 2024

Lineworker scholarship recipient announced

  • Currents
  • September 2024

EIA expects record-high power consumption this year

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