[news clips] Bicyclists Ride, Raise $ for Those Struggling With Bills When Colorado electric cooperatives ride in the annual Pedal the Plains three-day bike tour of eastern Colorado September 15-17, they will be raising money for Energy Outreach Colorado. EOC helps low-income Coloradans afford home energy and stay safe and warm in their homes. The co-ops invite you to join them. You can register to ride the three days as a member of our Powering the Plains bike team or you can donate money to the team, which will go directly to Energy Outreach Colorado. Visit poweringtheplains.coop for information on how to donate to the Powering the Plains bike team.
Average Prices for Residential Electricity 2015 figures, in cents per kWh U.S. Average: 12.65¢ per kWh WA 9.1¢ OR 10.7¢
NV 12.8¢ CA 17¢
MT 10.9¢ ID 9.9¢
UT 10.7¢
AZ 11.9¢
WY 11¢ CO 12.1¢ NM 12.5¢
ND 9.6¢ SD 11.1¢
MN 12.1¢
NE 10.6¢ KS 12.3¢ OK 10.1¢ TX 11.6¢
WI 14.1¢
IA 11.6¢ MO 10.2¢ AR 9.8¢ LA 9.3¢
MI 14.4¢
VT: 17.1¢ NH: 18.5¢ MA: 19.8¢ RI: 19.3¢ NY CT: 20.9¢ 18.5¢
PA 13.6¢ IN OH IL 12.5¢ 11.6¢ 12.8¢ WV VA KY 10.1¢ 11.4¢ 10.2¢ NC TN 11.3¢ 10.3¢ SC 12.6¢ GA AL MS 11.7¢ 11.5¢ 11.3¢
ME 15.6¢
NJ: 15.8¢ DE: 13.4¢ MD: 13.8¢ DC: 13¢
FL 11.6¢
AK 19.8¢ HI 29.6¢
Residential Average Price (cents per kilowatt-hour) Over 12.5¢ Under 10 ¢ 10¢ to 12.5¢ Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration Numbers rounded to nearest tenth of a cent
Co-ops Provide Camp Experience
The grand champion sheep is sold at last year’s Touchstone Energy Junior Livestock Sale.
More than 100 students and chaperones recently returned from the electric co-ops’ Leadership Camp in Glen Eden, Colorado. Sponsored by the Colorado Rural Electric Association and Colorado’s electric co-ops, the camp offers high school students leadership training; a look at our congressional process; a visit to a power plant, a coal mine and a solar facility; and more.
Co-ops Support Ag Kids at Colorado State Fair Prize-winning beef cattle, hogs, goats, lambs, rabbits and chickens will be sold for top dollar at the Tuesday, August 29, Colorado State Fair annual Junior Livestock Sale, sponsored by Colorado’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives. Future Farmers of America members and 4-H’ers from around the state spent the last year raising animals in hopes of reaching this premier sale in Pueblo. All grand 12
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champion, reserve grand champion, champion, reserve champion and first, second and third place animals will be sold at the auction. Bids will come from buyers and buying groups and are expected to raise more than half a million dollars for more than 130 student participants. The local electric co-ops, which serve most of the farms and ranches where the top-rated stock sold at the sale is raised,
have sponsored the Junior Livestock Sale since 2006. This year, Colorado Country Life, the Colorado Rural Electric Association and Tri-State Generation and Transmission continue their support, along with 17 of the state’s 22 electric co-ops, all under the shared Touchstone Energy Cooperatives brand.
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