The NCPA and its member agencies’ long-standing commitment to energy efficiency is an extension of fundamental principles dedicated to social and environmental responsibility, ensuring reliability, and keeping rates low for the communities we serve. Energy Efficiency is of the utmost importance to municipal utilities. Energy efficiency is a critical element of the resource planning process, generation, transmission, distribution, and demand.  NCPA and municipal utilities’ commitment to energy efficiency is guided by four important concepts:

• We place a high priority on energy efficiency, renewable investment, low income programs, and economic development.  Local elected officials govern and regulate public power to ensure our direct accountability on these important issues.

• Operational Energy Efficiency.  Public power has important energy efficiency programs that optimize generation and transmission resources, and ensure more optimal operation of the grid.

• Demand-side Energy Efficiency.  This is our major focus.  It includes, but is not limited to: appliances, air-conditioners, building codes and standards, education, electricity management, and weatherization, all coordinated with customer-specific programs.

• Cost-effective Energy Efficiency.  Cost-effective EE lowers the cost of providing electricity to our communities.  Our customers are our shareholders and benefits related to energy efficiency are realized by all of our customer-owners.