{"id":1748,"date":"2023-01-31T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-nearly-90-million-federal-loan-to-umatilla-electric-cooperative-for-power-grid-improvements\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T19:17:03","slug":"wyden-merkley-nearly-90-million-federal-loan-to-umatilla-electric-cooperative-for-power-grid-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-nearly-90-million-federal-loan-to-umatilla-electric-cooperative-for-power-grid-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley: Pr\u00e9stamo federal de casi $90 millones a la cooperativa el\u00e9ctrica Umatilla para mejoras en la red el\u00e9ctrica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><i><span>Washington DC<\/span><\/i><\/b><span> \u2013 Los senadores estadounidenses Ron Wyden y Jeff Merkley anunciaron hoy que la Cooperativa El\u00e9ctrica Umatilla recibir\u00e1 un pr\u00e9stamo federal de casi $90 millones para ampliar y mejorar la red el\u00e9ctrica en el noreste de Oreg\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&quot;Los severos eventos clim\u00e1ticos de Oregon, desde tormentas de viento que derriban l\u00edneas el\u00e9ctricas y provocan infiernos catastr\u00f3ficos hasta tormentas de hielo y granizo que causan p\u00e9rdidas de energ\u00eda y da\u00f1os a la propiedad, demuestran que debemos fortalecer nuestra envejecida infraestructura de red&quot;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span>dijo Wyden.&nbsp;<b>&quot;Esta inversi\u00f3n federal para hacer que la red el\u00e9ctrica sea m\u00e1s resistente en el noreste de Oreg\u00f3n contribuir\u00e1 en gran medida a mantener a los residentes rurales de Oreg\u00f3n en los condados de Morrow, Umatilla y Union m\u00e1s seguros y con energ\u00eda durante los eventos clim\u00e1ticos venideros&quot;.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>&quot;Esta financiaci\u00f3n es una inversi\u00f3n inteligente en la infraestructura y el futuro de las zonas rurales de Oreg\u00f3n&quot;. <\/span><\/b><span>dijo Merkley, quien forma parte del subcomit\u00e9 del Senado que financia el Departamento de Agricultura.<b> \u201cAsegurar que las cooperativas rurales tengan los recursos necesarios para mantener una infraestructura el\u00e9ctrica moderna y confiable brinda oportunidades econ\u00f3micas que las comunidades rurales de Oregon necesitan para prosperar. Me complace que estos fondos que apoyan las tecnolog\u00edas de redes inteligentes se dirijan al este de Oreg\u00f3n y continuar\u00e9 luchando por m\u00e1s inversiones de este tipo para las \u00e1reas rurales en cada rinc\u00f3n de nuestro estado\u201d.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>Esta inversi\u00f3n en Desarrollo Rural se utilizar\u00e1 para conectar a 645 nuevos consumidores y construir y mejorar 93 millas de l\u00ednea en el noreste de Oreg\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s de Umatilla Electric Cooperative, que presta servicios a 15,913 consumidores en 2,334 millas de l\u00ednea en los condados de Morrow, Umatilla y Union en Oreg\u00f3n. Este pr\u00e9stamo tambi\u00e9n incluye m\u00e1s de $12 millones para tecnolog\u00edas de redes inteligentes para una red el\u00e9ctrica m\u00e1s eficiente y resiliente.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><span>\u201cEl programa de desarrollo rural del USDA para cooperativas el\u00e9ctricas es una parte integral del \u00e9xito continuo de nuestra cooperativa en crecimiento y servicio a nuestras comunidades miembros en el este de Oreg\u00f3n. El pr\u00e9stamo de $89 millones se destinar\u00e1 a un plan de tres a\u00f1os para garantizar que UEC est\u00e9 disponible para nuestros miembros con un costo estimado superior a $121 millones. El programa de pr\u00e9stamos garantiza que podamos seguir invirtiendo y sirviendo a nuestros miembros y nos ofrece un mecanismo asequible para financiar estos proyectos intensivos en capital, especialmente en tiempos de aumento de los costos de mano de obra y materiales\u201d. <\/span><\/b><span>dijo Robert Echenrode, director general de la Cooperativa El\u00e9ctrica Umatilla.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><span>Una versi\u00f3n web de este comunicado es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wyden-merkley-nearly-90-million-federal-loan-to-umatilla-electric-cooperative-for-power-grid-improvements\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\" align=\"center\"><span>###<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today announced that the Umatilla Electric Cooperative will receive a nearly $90 million federal loan to expand and improve the electric grid in Northeastern Oregon. &ldquo;Oregon&#8217;s severe weather events&mdash;from windstorms that down power lines and spark catastrophic infernos to ice and hail storms that cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-delivering-for-oregon"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley: Nearly $90 Million Federal Loan to Umatilla Electric Cooperative for Power Grid Improvements - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-nearly-90-million-federal-loan-to-umatilla-electric-cooperative-for-power-grid-improvements\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley: Nearly $90 Million Federal Loan to Umatilla Electric Cooperative for Power Grid Improvements - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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