Talk:Rural Electrification Act

Accuracy

I doubt the 6900 volt figure. I believe 69000 is correct, but have no reference. LorenzoB (talk) 16:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Coverage

It would be interesting to know how long it took REA to reach 25%, 50% and 75% of the rural areas (we never have reached 100%), or maybe have a map showing the coverage in a given year. I know my mom in northern MN finally got electricity in the end of 1949, then they moved to a ranch in North Dakota which did not yet have electricity. Nerfer (talk) 21:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Add reference to cooperatives and history article

Suggesting the addition of the following footnote to the second sentence ("The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, most of which still exist today") to provide support for the statement about the role of cooperatives. The cited article includes further historical background on the REA and American rural electrification. (I am an editor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which published the article.) Also, suggest changing "most of which" to "hundreds of which" -- I cannot find support for "most of which."

The funding was channeled through cooperative electric power companies, hundreds of which still exist today.

EditorMax of RichmondFR (talk) 14:17, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

EditorMax of RichmondFR, go ahead and make the edit yourself. Sandstein 08:35, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

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