Coop News from EnerStar

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When night falls, it can get pretty dark in the countryside. Outdoor lighting, often referred to as security lights, brightens up walkways, sheds and backyards, at even the most remote homesteads.

In 2005, federal legislation banned the sale of traditional outdoor mercury-vapor (MV) lights. Many years before that, the cooperative had switched to high pressure sodium (HPS) lights. While the lumens, a measurement of the amount of light emitted, was virtually the same for these two lights, some members did not like the orange hue of the HPS lights and felt it was not as bright.

New Landfill Gas Plant to Open Near Buffalo, Indiana

Solar power and wind farms have long been used as renewable energy sources in the Midwest. But in 2002, Wabash Valley Power, the wholesale power provider to EnerStar Electric Cooperative, was one of the first utilities to use a much more unexpected resource for green energy—landfills.

For over 50 years, the electric cooperatives of Illinois have given tomorrow’s leaders the opportunity to learn from today’s public officials. And EnerStar is on the hunt to for two outstanding students to represent our cooperative at the Youth Tour this year.