La Plata Electric Association will hold an information session about the integration of the renewable/distributed electricity generation into LPEA’s resource mix from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13 at the LPEA Durango headquarters, 45 Stewart St.
LPEA is a distribution cooperative, and manages the infrastructure that transports electricity from a power generator to the end user, which includes homeowners and businesses in La Plata and Archuleta counties.
The information session will cover the long-term contract with Tri-State Generation and Transmission that supplies 95 percent of LPEA’s power requirements, and the five-percent leeway LPEA has to purchase power outside of Tri-State.
Topics of discussion will also include an explanation of distributed generation, the policy, pricing and physics that limit LPEA, LPEA’s current resource mix and a breakdown of the power bill.
Reservations are required to attend.
To reserve a seat at the workshop, contact Sue Maxwell at 382-7170 or smaxwell@lpea.coop.
