What We're Doing
NPPD recognizes the growing political concerns regarding climate change and is actively taking measures to address the challenge by:
- Adding more wind-powered generation to our portfolio;
- Replacing aging, inefficient lighting at three of our power plants for an estimated savings of 3.3 million kilowatt-hours a year;
- Offering low-interest customer loans in partnership with the Nebraska Energy Office for energy efficiency and conservation applications.
- Investigating alternative energy sources and potential carbon offsets via the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research;
- Reducing energy usage at our facilities with a corporate-wide peak load alert procedure;
- Encouraging demand-side and load management opportunities that save more than 500 megawatts a year;
- Evaluating how to repower Sheldon Station, a coal plant near Hallam, Neb., with a cleaner, more efficient technology, like gasification;
- Seeking to meet a strategic goal to generate 10% of our energy needs with renewable resources by 2020;
- Voluntarily lowering our power plants’ greenhouse gas emission intensity of electricity (C02/MWh);
- Planning for generation resources that optimize energy efficiency, renewable energy, and low-cost options over the next 20 years;
- Demonstrating good environmental stewardship to protect the earth, water, air, and waste disposal;
- Protecting threatened and endangered species;
- Conserving our natural resources, especially water;
- Investigating pumped hydro storage generation.
- Partnering with industry organizations and other utilities to evaluate carbon-neutral and renewable generation technologies, such as wind-powered generation;
- Researching and implementing projects such as Olean Energy that use agricultural-based methane or other waste products to generate electricity;
- Offering EnergyWise energy efficiency programs that reduce our customers’ energy usage.
- NPPD is a partner in Environmental Protection Agency’s SF6 Emission Reduction Partnership.