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Home“Why is WREC spending all of this money on energy efficient?" As most of our members know, WREC is an all requirements customer of The Bonneville Power Administration (The BPA). The BPA is responsible for managing the entire federal based hydro electric system on the Columbia River Basin. The federal based hydro system is capable of generating a lot of electricity, but because no new dams can be built to meet the load growth of The BPA’s customers, other more expensive sources of electricity were acquired by The BPA to meet this need. The BPA realized that giving customers an incentive to conserve electricity was less expensive than purchasing additional electricity capacity. So in an effort to keep the cost of electricity down, every month The BPA gives all of its customers including your cooperative, Wells Rural Electric a conservation rate credit on its monthly power bill based on our individual load size. WREC is required to use this money to reduce its load or it must return the money to be used by other utilities that The BPA serves. Wells Rural Electric has decided that the best way to use that rate credit is to offer rebates to our members to help pay for making their existing homes more energy efficient. The residential rebates program has quickly become one of our most popular programs. |
