{"id":93516,"date":"2017-09-27T06:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=93516"},"modified":"2017-09-27T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:41:40","slug":"latta-holds-hearing-on-rural-cooperatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/latta-holds-hearing-on-rural-cooperatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta holds hearing on rural cooperatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) highlighted Ohio\u2019s rural electric cooperatives and discussed the impact of the Internet of Things at an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy hearing on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33253\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Latta-Bob-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Bob Latta<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The hearing,\u00a0\u201cPowering America: Technology\u2019s Role in Empowering Consumers,\u201d\u00a0examined how technology and changing consumer\u00a0preferences\u00a0has transformed our nation\u2019s way of delivering energy.<\/p>\n<p>During his questioning, Latta mentioned that Ohio\u2019s Fifth Congressional District has the most rural\u00a0electric\u00a0cooperatives in the state and asked Dr. Bryan Hannegan, president and CEO of Holy Cross Energy, how the company determines which technologies to deploy in order to benefit consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Latta also asked Monica Lamb, director of regulated markets for LO3 Energy, what potential applications exist for the Internet of\u00a0Things\u00a0within the\u00a0electricity\u00a0sector and how they would benefit consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Video of Latta\u2019s questions and the witnesses\u2019\u00a0response is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10-gikVSIpQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WASHINGTON, D.C.\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) highlighted Ohio\u2019s rural electric cooperatives and discussed the impact of the Internet of Things at an Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy hearing on Tuesday morning. The hearing,\u00a0\u201cPowering America: Technology\u2019s Role in Empowering Consumers,\u201d\u00a0examined how technology and changing consumer\u00a0preferences\u00a0has transformed our nation\u2019s way of delivering energy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 00:56:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}