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Greetings!
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hope you enjoy this latest issue, and would welcome your
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full articles on our website.
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RUS Requires that Your Cooperative Perform an Emergency
Restoration Plan by January 12, 2006
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 Here's
what it means to you:
RUS borrowers must certify by Board approval that they have
completed an initial Emergency Restoration Plan (ERP)
addressing critical facilities and assets by the deadline.
There has been confusion by some about exactly what is to be
covered by the Plan. Is it Information Systems, the Electric
System, or the whole Business Enterprise? The scope actually
goes beyond all three of these and extends to the community
infrastructure that is served by your system!
Full Story...
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Improving Return on Investment (ROI) with Technology
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 Many
of you have technology deployed to increase performance and
accuracy of necessary functions like billing, engineering,
service restoration and customer services. In many or most
cases an overall reduction in cost or gain in efficiency was
identified which lead to the decision to install these
systems.
Full Story
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Demand Management - Once Again Time?
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 Has
your cooperative operated a load management program in the
past that controlled water heaters, HVAC systems, pool pumps
and/or irrigation systems? Is it still effective? Are you (re)considering
load management to avoid capacity purchases as the generation
"capacity bubble" goes away and the cost of energy increases?
Typical programs allow you to avoid building or buying new
capacity by "clipping" your demand during the peak. They also
allow you to defer energy use which could move the loads into
a lower cost regime.
Full Story
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July 2005 Edge Newsletter 
