(The Center Square) – Colorado rural electricity cooperatives are receiving $2.5 billion in low-cost financing and grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s New Empowering Rural America program to bolster the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s clean energy transition. Two new Colorado co-ops, Yampa Valley Electric Association and Poudre Valley REA (PVREA), will also advance in the New ERA award process. “With [the Inflation Reduction Act], we are rapidly deploying clean energy and boosting American manufacturing for wind, solar, and batteries,” U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet,…