The Price of Going Green is Now Less Than a Dime  
Price reduction announced for Green Power participants
At the May 24, 2010 meeting the Poudre Valley REA board of directors approved reducing the cost of the co-op Green Power Program from 50¢ to 9¢ per 100 kilowatt block. This price reduction will allow an average consumer to support renewable energy initiatives for less than $1 per month.
Go all green.

Poudre Valley REA's power supplier, Tri-State G&T, is partnering with a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp. to develop a new 51-megawatt wind farm currently under construction in Colorado.  The Kit Carson Windpower Project is named for the county in which it is sited northwest of Burlington, Colo.

Tri-State is also working with First Solar and Southern Company to develop a 30 megawatt solar farm in northeastern New Mexico that will incorporate 500,000 solar panels.  The Cimarron I Solar Project will be the largest solar PV project by an electric cooperative and one of the largest facilities of its kind in the nation.

Estimated completion date for both projects is December 2010.

Click here to view a live webcam of the wind farm project.

And you can view a conceptual movie of the solar farm.

Renewable Energy
Poudre Valley REA has offered electricity generated from renewable sources through the Green Power Program for more than a decade. Today we also offer net-metering for all consumers and direct rebates for members who install solar PV panels and wind turbines. Click on any of these links to find out more about these programs.

For more information on this and other programs offered by Poudre Valley REA call the Member Services Department at 970-226-1234