The holidays can be a glorious time of togetherness, giving, and wonderful memories. Unfortunately, for some of HomeServe's customers, the most memorable event of the 2022 holiday season will be that their power lines froze or heating systems shut down due to extreme...
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Climate Change Will Cost Cooperatives Millions if Not Addressed
by Kimberly Dailey | Sep 20, 2022
Climate change spells lowered efficiency, increased expenses and more outages – the only thing members dislike more than rate increases – and as the demand for energy increases, the problems around climate change only loom larger. The decade between 2000 to 2010 was...
LMI Households Face Obstacles to Achieving Energy Efficiency
by Kimberly Dailey | Apr 11, 2022
Low- and Middle-Income (LMI) households have historically faced obstacles to becoming more energy efficient, despite the outsized impact efficiency measures would have for this population. Low-income households pay more than 7 percent of their income on energy bills,...
Electric Vehicles Expand Energy Equity Opportunities
by Kimberly Dailey | Nov 9, 2021
The transportation sector has been the largest CO2 producer in the United States since 2017 when it surpassed power generation, a sector which reduced CO2 emissions through the switch from coal to natural gas and growth in renewables. Transportation is currently...
Can Cooperatives Thrive and Grow in an Environment of Decarbonization?
by Bob Stoyko | Aug 12, 2021
Natural gas cooperatives have a long history of growing their member base by promoting the virtues of natural gas when compared to other energy options: natural gas is clean-burning, energy efficient and cost effective. The expanding concerns about climate change and...
Extreme Weather, Aging Infrastructure Result in Power Outages
by Kimberly Dailey | Jul 9, 2021
Climate change has increased average temperatures, increased the occurrence and length of heat waves, increased drought conditions and increased extreme one-day precipitation events, and those conditions have stressed an already aging electrical grid, causing power...
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
by bstickle | May 20, 2021
Cooperatives Can Now Deliver Peace of Mind to the EV Member ExperienceElectric Vehicle adoption is expected to accelerate, with more than 20 percent of annual vehicle sales expected to be EVs by 2030. As more EVs enter the market, more of your members will be...
Electric Vehicle Fleet Education: Partnering with Transportation Owners
by Kimberly Dailey | Apr 12, 2021
Although electric vehicles (EVs) are primarily marketed toward individual drivers, targeting information at commercial fleet managers can be very impactful in the proliferation of consumer EV ownership. With the U.S. pledging to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by...
Natural Gas Leads Energy Industry in Decarbonization
by Kimberly Dailey | Mar 25, 2021
Natural gas is shrinking the energy industry’s emissions, while utilities continue to improve decarbonization efforts with innovative processes and technological advances. Natural gas has been playing an understated role in limiting climate change by becoming the...
Energy Resilience Difficult for Some Homeowners
by Kimberly Dailey | Jan 15, 2021
Energy resilience, while vitally important, is becoming more and more challenging in the face of increased extreme weather events which are projected to cause more frequent and longer power outages. The COVID-19 pandemic is further compounding resiliency issues for...
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2024 NRECA PowerXchange Provides Key Insights for Cooperative Landscape
This year’s NRECA PowerXchange conference brought together co-op leaders, board members and solutions providers to exchange ideas and insights about the industry as well as best practices for cooperative operations. HomeServe had the opportunity to attend sessions and...
Increase In Extreme Cold Events Posing New Challenges for Cooperatives
While it’s intuitive to link the warming of the planet with hotter and longer heatwaves, longer droughts, more wildfires, and heavier rain, the link is less obvious when it comes to an increase in extreme cold events across North America, particularly in areas that...
HomeServe Celebrates 20 Years of Serving Homeowners and Enhancing Communities
Twenty years ago this month, HomeServe launched its first U.S. utility partnership to educate homeowners and offer optional protection against potentially costly emergency repairs to residential lines and systems. Today nearly 5 million homeowners are benefitting from...