Research

This brief white paper summarizes the need for high and symmetrical broadband upload speed to maintain and improve U.S. innovation and competitiveness. The current asymmetric speeds that favor downloads over uploads are an artifact of…

According to a recent study from the Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense Media, 21% of urban and 37% of rural public k-12 students, representing more than 15 million students in total, and up to…

A wide range of technologies are rapidly being commercialized and deployed to modernize the electric grid. These digital “smart grid” technologies take advantage of modern data acquisition, control and computing power to improve an electric…

Broadband access in rural America already has a large economic impact. A 2016 study by the Hudson Institute found that rural broadband supports nearly $100 billion in manufacturing activity. A wide variety of studies have…

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for ubiquitous, high-speed, broadband internet connectivity. A recent “Advisory” from the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association discusses this need in rural America to support remote healthcare, remote education,…

The quello center at Michigan State University recently completed a comparative study of performance and college attendance plans for Michigan middle school and high school students. Their study, which corrected for socio-economic and other factors,…

Many grid modernization and “smart grid” technologies offer operational benefits for electric cooperatives and other utilities and their customers. These benefits can increase reliability, resiliency and operational efficiency that lowers costs and greenhouse gas emissions….