Cooperatives
Bryan Hannegan is the CEO of Holy Cross Energy. Gregg Morrell is VP of Corporate Services & Human Resources at SECO Energy. Abraham Vasquez is Program Director at Rio Grande Electric Cooperative. Jeffery Wright is President of the Block Island Utility District. Angela Strickland is senior vice president, Business and Technology Strategies at NRECA.
Our nation's electric cooperatives have a lot happening on the innovation front. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association supports its nine-hundred-plus member cooperatives with innovation as they serve growing suburbs and local communities in navigating the changing electric industry.
NRECA has a Business and Technology Strategies Department to engage with cooperatives and provide insights, as well as recommendations, on trends affecting operations, tech planning, research, and anything having to do with innovation. That expertise is much needed as all signs point to innovation as required moving forward to ensure the success of all involved in the energy and utilities industry.
To discuss the latest on cooperatives and innovation, Public Utilities Fortnightly brought together here NRECA's Senior Vice President of Business and Technology Strategies Angela Strickland, along with four senior cooperative executives, Block Island Utility President Jeffery Wright, Holy Cross Energy CEO Bryan Hannegan, Rio Grande Electric Cooperative Program Manager Abraham Vasquez, and SECO Energy Chief Corporate Service Officer Gregg Morrell.
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