The LPEA election for the board of directors is nearly upon us. Please vote. Your board needs to hear your voice as it plans for the future. Energy systems are changing around the country. Our 20th-century energy production and distribution models (centralized power plants using cheap fossil fuels distributed via a large grid) are giving away to a different kind of model for the 21st century. The new model is decentralized energy production and localized grids, utilizing a number of local energy producers and renewable energy with fossil fuel backup. This new model requires rural energy coops like LPEA to reinvent themselves to best serve their member customers in the future and keep costs down.
LPEA customers send $73 million out of our area every year to pay for our electricity. Think how our local economy would benefit from even 20 percent of that $73 million circulating here. We need a future-thinking board of directors, not members who would like to keep the status quo. Please vote for Jeff Berman in District 3 (Durango) and Alison Dance in District 4 (north county).
Alison is a dynamic business owner who is passionate about local control, both in food production and energy. We need board members like her – hardworking, dedicated to local control, creative and smart.
We need board members who will lead LPEA into the 21st century, rather than be stuck in the old “getting-more-expensive-every-year” model. Vote for Alison Dance.
Tom & Diane Higgins
Durango
