This glossary includes more than 300 solar terms, as well as hundreds of additional sustainable design and construction terms.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AllDefinition: A form of utility in which all users own shares. Electric cooperatives are common in rural areas that are expensive to serve because of long distances between users. Frequently, the government contributes in various ways to rural cooperatives to reduce costs to individual owners/users.