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November 4, 2025 Power

Rising Load Growth Reshapes Cooperative Portfolios and Strategy

Electric cooperatives keep the lights on for 56% of the U.S. land area, powering the homes, small businesses and farms that form the backbone of the country’s rural communities. Rising power needs from data centers and new manufacturing facilities are reshaping the energy landscape for all power providers. For many cooperatives, a single large-load project sited in their service territory can represent a tremendous percentage growth of their total system capacity and necessitate new long-term plans and financial assumptions.

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