New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association Provides:

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New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives

Advocacy

NMRECA actively works to protect cooperative interests before regulatory, political and governmental bodies as well as the general public. It monitors and analyzes events and trends that affect cooperatives; recommends policy positions to members through its board of directors; implements board decisions through participation in task forces; represents its members in regulatory and legislative proceedings; and communicates with cooperative consumers through its monthly publication, enchantment magazine.

Self-Insurance

NMRECA administers the New Mexico Rural Electric Self-Insurer’s Fund (NMRESIF), a workers’ compensation fund owned by New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives. Formed in 1986, NMRESIF provides significant savings to its members by pooling the risks of providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage and a risk management program. Over the last eight years, the NMRESIF has returned $3.9 million in premiums to it members.

Training

NMRECA coordinates specialized training for its members. It arranges training programs for directors, managers and employees with outside agencies. The training programs emphasize risk management, communications, director responsibilities, business skills, governance and policy issues.

Communications

NMRECA provides advocacy and general communications through newsletters, directories, websites, the annual Legislative Almanac and its monthly magazine, enchantment, which give New Mexico’s electric cooperatives a united forum to communicate with their members. Enchantment highlights people and places of New Mexico’s cooperatives and focuses on the issues facing rural Americans. In 2023, nearly 112,000 cooperative members, community leaders and subscribers received enchantment each month. Enchantment made its debut as a magazine with the January 2020 edition.

enchantment magazine: The Voice of New Mexico’s Rural Electric Cooperatives. To advertise in enchantment, call 505-982-4671 today!