{"id":15350,"date":"2013-07-29T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15350"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:12:41","slug":"rural-electric-co-op-using-federal-loan-to-expand-grid-for-oil-and-gas-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/07\/29\/rural-electric-co-op-using-federal-loan-to-expand-grid-for-oil-and-gas-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Electric Co-Op Using Federal Loan to Expand Grid for Oil and Gas Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oil and gas <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/09\/25\/rural-electric-cooperatives-straining-to-power-oklahomas-oil-and-gas-boom\/\">boom is straining the power grid<\/a> in rural Oklahoma, and electric co-cops are scrambling to keep up with power-hungry rigs, compressors and other exploration and production equipment.<\/p><p>Powerless, energy <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/natural-gas-bringing-cheaper-electricity-to-oklahoma-oil-play\/article\/3861384\">companies often turn to generators<\/a>. Much of the the boom is concentrated in north-central Oklahoma, in an oil play known as the Mississippian, where the boom has brought\u00a0busier businesses and new houses. \u00a0To expand its service and match growth, the Central Rural Electric Cooperative\u00a0secured a $9.7 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the <em>Stillwater NewsPress<\/em>\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stwnewspress.com\/local\/x1724762986\/Oil-gas-boom-bumps-demand-for-electricity\">Chris Day reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Stillwater-based electricity cooperative is working with more than 250 oil and gas producers throughout its service area which covers 2,000 square miles and includes parts of Noble, Garfield, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Pawnee and Payne counties. Much of the growth is on the western half of the CREC system, CREC Communication\u2019s Coordinator Larry Mattox said.<\/p><p>\u201cWe serve all the way down to Stroud and east of Cushing, but most of it (growth) is happening near Mulhall-Orlando on west side of our system,\u201d Mattox said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oil and gas boom is straining the power grid in rural Oklahoma, and electric co-cops are scrambling to keep up with power-hungry rigs, compressors and other exploration and production equipment.Powerless, energy companies often turn to generators. Much of the the boom is concentrated in north-central Oklahoma, in an oil play known as the Mississippian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[462,238,419],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15350"}],"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=15350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15354,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15350\/revisions\/15354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}