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10-20% of warm air from your home can be drawn into the chimney flue. You can spot a leaky damper by closing it and holding a lit candle inside the firebox.If the flame moves around or blows out, air is going up your chimney.
To resolve the problem, hire a chimney sweep for a good cleaning and to check the damper. It could reduce your annual heating bill by $500.
Can Save You Money
Colorado's electric cooperatives have always relied upon renewable energy with electricity coming from hydroelectric dams.
GCEA's power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission offers cooperative members another way to further support generation of renewable energy. It is called Green Power.
Green Power is provided through Tri-State's purchase of renewable energy derived from wind, solar, small hydro, and biomass projects. Green Power is made available to GCEA's members on a voluntary basis.
GCEA supports local generation of renewable energy through the High School Solar Program, the Doyleville Wind Generation Project, and by offering net metering to our customers.
GCEA offered a $10,000 challenge grant to each of the local high schools to build 1.5 kilowatt solar energy systems that could be used for educational purposes. Both Crested Butte Community School and the Gunnison High School students and faculty stepped forward and met the challenge.
Gunnison High School Industrial Arts teacher Wyatt Phipps is proud of the role that his students played in installing their school's system. The students helped raise their matching funds by collecting and selling scrap metal, and then they worked with Solar Energy International to install the mounting pole and assemble the system. Although the system was temporarily out of commission for part of 2010 due to the high school construction project, it is now up and running.
In exchange for GCEA's contribution of funding and expertise to the project, the RE1J School District has assigned the Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) that the system produces to Gunnison County Electric. We will be reporting on the RECs generated throughout 2011.
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