Home page of the Energy Working Group

Our mission is to enhance and support conservation and renewable energy efforts in the Pikes Peak region and help advance the goals of the Coalition and its members.

Our collabrative process begins with small groups who take on a subject and study its implications for our community. They bring their project to the larger Coalition group for promotion to the community. Our first project was to gain community support for our Utility to procure more wind power.

We established our goal to sign up 1000 customers for a new wind power program. Between our personal sign-ups and the online effort as of Dec. 10th, 2008, more than 500 customers had responded with their committments avoiding more than 3 million pounds of CO2 per year.

Citizens are continuing to sign up for this clean energy program through our on-line form or by calling Colorado Springs Utilities @ 448-4800.

Our future projects may follow our present explorations into :

A Dark Skies Initiative - how to reduce night lighting without decreasing security.

Permanent funding mechanisms for renewable energy.

Conservation kits for retail and fundraising.

Improvement of local building Codes to reduce the impact of our built world on our natural world.

An energy challenge for school kids to reduce their energy use.