{"id":10078,"date":"2012-09-25T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2012-09-25T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:12:27","slug":"rural-electric-cooperatives-straining-to-power-oklahomas-oil-and-gas-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/25\/rural-electric-cooperatives-straining-to-power-oklahomas-oil-and-gas-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Electric Cooperatives Straining to Power Oklahoma&#8217;s Oil and Gas Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural electric cooperatives are working &#8220;overtime&#8221; to meet increased power demand from Oklahoma&#8217;s oil patch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ect.coop\/editors-pick\/oklahoma-electric-coops-face-oil-gas-boom\/48342\">reports Electric Co-op Today<\/a>.<\/p><p>Officials with the Kay Electric Co-op in Blackwell \u2014\u00a0which serves the Mississippi Lime play \u2014 say power demand has doubled in recent years, and they say it could double again in the next two. Co-ops are straining and scrambling to add substations and built new distribution lines.<\/p><p>The small, rural co-ops and their power suppliers are <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/30\/oil-and-gas-boom-outgrowing-electrical-infrastructure-in-rural-oklahoma\/\">under pressure<\/a> from oil companies to increase capacity, Victoria A. Rocha writes for ECT, the trade news outlet of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cProducers don\u2019t want to wait because oil is so valuable,\u201d said Mark Faulkenberry, manager of marketing and communications at Western Farmers Electric Co-op, a G&T in Anadarko.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural electric cooperatives are working &#8220;overtime&#8221; to meet increased power demand from Oklahoma&#8217;s oil patch, reports Electric Co-op Today.Officials with the Kay Electric Co-op in Blackwell \u2014\u00a0which serves the Mississippi Lime play \u2014 say power demand has doubled in recent years, and they say it could double again in the next two. Co-ops are straining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[462,238,419],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10082,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}