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ATTENTION TEACHERS:
Spark Your Knowledge of Electricity Schoolteachers interested in the electric industry have the opportunity next summer to learn more about energy, how it is generated and how it is supplied to all of us who use it. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, the power supplier to 18 of Colorado’s 22 electric co-ops, will bring together educators who teach grades 4-12 for a three-day learning session in Westminster June 18-20. The program is open and free to all teachers who are electric cooperative members, teach at schools that are co-op members or teach students whose parents are co-op members in Tri-State’s service area. (Educators outside of electric co-op territory are welcome to apply, and funding will be sought on their behalf.)
Thanks to the support of Tri-State’s member cooperatives, there is no cost to educators in the Tri-State service area who participate. Most expenses, including lodging, meals, transportation and conference materials, are provided. The program is sponsored in cooperation with the National Energy Education Development Project, which works with the education community to promote an energy-conscious and educated society by helping deliver multisided energy education programs. For more information or to apply, contact Wendi Moss at the NEED Project, wmoss@need.org, or Michelle Pastor at mpastor@tristategt.org.
You may not realize it, but if you are reading this magazine, you are probably a member of an electric cooperative. Colorado Country Life is mailed to electric cooperative members as a service from your local electric co-op. It is the co-op’s way of keeping its consumer-members up to date on events at the co-op, new programs and rebates, board of directors elections, rate changes and more. If you like doing business with a cooperative and are interested in connecting with co-ops, visit colorado. coop online. This new website lists all kinds of cooperatives located in Colorado. You’ll find your local electric co-op, ag co-ops, credit unions and more. There are 65,000 coops in the United States and hundreds here in Colorado. Engage with these various co-ops and live out the sixth cooperative principle: cooperation among cooperatives.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Sector Decline Changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, along with a slowdown in the growth of demand for power, have contributed to a 28 percent decline in carbon dioxide emissions since 2005, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. EIA calculated that CO2 emissions from the United States’ electric power sector totaled 1,744 million metric tons (MMt) in 2017, the lowest level since 1987. (CO2 emissions from outside the power sector only fell by 5 percent in that same time period.) U.S. electricity demand decreased in six of the past 10 years as industrial demand declined and residential and commercial demand remained relatively flat. If electricity demand continued to coloradocountrylife.coop
increase at the rate it did for the 10 years prior to 2005 and if the mix of fuels used to generate electricity stayed the same, CO2 emissions would have been 645 MMt higher in 2017. But, instead, in
2017, “noncarbon” resources, including renewable resources, accounted for 38 percent of the resources, up from 28 percent in 2005.
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