Organizers in Mississippi, the nation’s poorest state and one of its most rural, have been working for years to make the state’s 31 electric co-ops more democratic — part of the broader energy democracy movement that seeks to tie the transition to renewable energy with efforts to decentralize energy systems and increase public participation in energy policymaking. Their efforts continue as co-ops face increasing pressure to address carbon pollution and to offer broadband internet service. To learn more about the movement to democratize Mississippi’s electric cooperatives, Facing South spoke with three of its leaders.

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