By Dakoury Godo-Solo, Environmental Defense Fund and Lidiya Kassahun and Margarita Parra, Clean Energy Works
- Rural electric co-ops face both challenges and opportunities as electric trucks and buses drive new demand. Proactive planning is essential to avoid costly grid upgrades, as well as missed economic and public health benefits.
- A new report prepared by Clean Energy Works for EDF makes the case that by acting proactively now, rural co-ops can accommodate (and even attract) medium and heavy-duty EVs while also reducing long-term grid upgrade costs to their members.