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United Cooperative Services is an electric distribution co-op serving more than 50,000 members in a 14-county service area southwest of Fort Worth, Texas. As a not-for-profit Touchstone Energy^® cooperative, United plays a key role in the economic development of its communities and offers residential and commercial members the most reliable, safe and economical electric service at the lowest possible price.

Dublin ISD, Lingleville ISD Receive Energy Efficiency Grants
Grants from United Cooperative Services to help reduce energy consumption.

Through the newly created EnergySmarts Grant Program, United Cooperative Services is providing much-needed grant funding to eligible schools and/or independent school districts served by the electric cooperative for the installation and implementation of energy efficiency measures. United director Larry Bays presented two this month, one to Dublin ISD for $4,300 and the other to Lingleville ISD in the amount of $5,000.

Dublin ISD will use the grant to pay for 30 new energy efficient T8 fluorescent light fixtures in each of its high school’s two gyms. According to Dublin ISD, this will alleviate the need to turn on all of the current 400-watt halide fixtures, which are significantly less efficient.

“It’s great that a business like United, focused on providing electricity, is helping Dublin ISD reduce its usage and preserving our way of life,” said Dublin ISD Superintendent Roy Neff. “We hope this will help us meet the 5 percent energy reduction goal that the state is requiring of schools,” he added.

Lingleville ISD will use the grant for a number of projects, including installation of programmable thermostats and energy efficient T8 fluorescent fixtures throughout the building. In addition, it will apply some of the grant toward installing an energy efficient air conditioner for its computer room. Currently, the school must use a large, higher use cooling unit.

We’re excited that United Cooperative Services is taking the lead in the community on energy conservation,” said Lingleville ISD Superintendent Dennis Hughes. “We’re certainly going to enjoy the savings this grant will provide now and down the line,” he added. “We’ve needed to do these upgrades for a long time, but didn’t have the means.”

United Cooperative Services to Award $87,000 in Scholarships in 2008

Cleburne - Demonstrating its commitment to the communities it serves, this summer United Cooperative Services will award $87,000 in Energy Scholarship Awards to 70 students who are members of the cooperative. United’s scholarship award program was created to encourage and assist in the educational pursuits of the co-op’s members and their families. United will award 67 scholarships valued at $1,000 each. Three additional scholarships will be awarded: two scholarships valued at $5,000 each and one scholarship valued at $10,000.

“As a member-owned electric co-op, United is committed to informing members that getting power from a not-for-profit cooperative has its privileges,” said United CEO Ray Beavers. “Our scholarship award program is one of the most telling ways we demonstrate to the members and communities we serve that we look out for their best interests,” he added.

The scholarship application process will begin May 1, 2008, and end June 6, 2008. Applications will not be accepted after June 6. Applications must be filled out online at United’s Web site: www.united-cs.com. Graduating high school seniors must meet a number of criteria, which includes being an active member of United or a dependent of parents or legal guardians who are active United members at their principle residence. Additional criteria can be obtained online at the United Web site.

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The energy efficiency tax credits signed into law by President George W. Bush are now in effect, providing incentives for American families and businesses to reduce energy costs at home, work and on the road. For more information on how you may be able to gain tax credits for your conservation efforts, visit the following Web site:

http://www.energytaxincentives.org/

This link will take you to Web site compiled by the The Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP). TIAP is sponsored by a coalition of public interest nonprofit groups, government agencies, and other organizations in the energy efficiency field and is designed to give consumers and businesses information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies passed by Congress as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Power costs are rising for members of Brazos Electric Cooperative, United’s generation and transmission wholesale power supplier. As United works to keep prices as low as possible for members, learn the facts about natural gas prices, find tips on how to conserve energy and discover how deregulation affects your cooperative.

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