As part of our Renew East Kentucky work, KFTC participated in a Clean Energy Collaborative with the East Kentucky Power Cooperative, 16 local electric cooperatives, and other parties. The Collaborative will hold it's third meeting tomorrow, and KFTC members are welcome to attend. Each meeting concludes with a time for the Collaborative to accept public comments.

About tomorrow's meeting:

The East Kentucky Power Cooperative Demand Side Management and Renewable Energy Collaborative will meet Tuesday, November 15, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Marriott Griffin Gate Hotel on Newtown Pike in Lexington. The meeting is open to the public.

This will be the group’s third meeting.  During this meeting, the Collaborative will discuss a set of preliminary recommendations presented by the Demand Side Management (DSM) Subgroup addressing such issues as marketing DSM; measuring and verifying energy savings; and overcoming barriers to DSM programming.

Also, the Collaborative members will hear a report from the Renewable Energy Subgroup on progress since the last meeting.
Members of the public will have an opportunity to make comments at the end of the meeting.

The Collaborative is a joint project of East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC), its 16 member cooperatives, the Sierra Club, the Kentucky Environmental Foundation (KEF) and Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC).

The group is meeting quarterly through the spring of 2013 to evaluate and recommend actions for EKPC to expand deployment of renewable energy and demand side management, and to promote collaboration among the Collaborative members in the implementation of those ideas. Demand side management refers to programs designed to encourage consumers to improve energy efficiency and modify their pattern of electricity usage.