United Power CEO added to NextGen board

BRIGHTON — United Power CEO Mark Gabriel will join the board of NextGen Cooperative Alliance as a founding member, a press release said.

NextGen represents distribution cooperatives. United Power is a member-owned, non-profit electric co-op covering 900 square miles, including 90,000 households and 300,000 people on the northern Front Range.

The alliance said its focus is on clean energy, local control and cooperative democratic oversight and on “developing better, more principled relationships with power providers [so co-ops] can work together to establish more equitable and flexible agreements” with those companies.

United Power is “advancing policy to shift away from a decades-old model,” Gabriel…