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Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative encourages its members to be responsible with all types of energy use and to take simple, yet effective measures to help save energy, and costs, through the co-op's ongoing Energy Management Plan.
The cooperative has a recycling and hazardous waste program for paper, aluminum, electronics and fluorescent lights.
Platte-Clay's power producer, Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI), committed to buy renewable energy from the first three commercial wind farms in Missouri for 20 years. The utility-scale wind farms were built by St. Louis-based Wind Energy Group and financed by John Deere Wind Energy Group, a division of Deere & Co.
The wind farms, located in Atchison County, near Tarkio; Gentry County, near King City; and Conception, in Nodaway County will produce enough renewable energy for 45,000 rural electric cooperative homes. Two of the wind farms have 24 Suzlon S-88, 2.1 megawatt turbines, the Bluegrass Ridge wind farm, near King City, has 27 units that together are capable of producing 157 megawatts.
The cooperative system built additional transmission lines to the rural wind farms.
Platte-Clay's power producer follows these core beliefs:
- Associated is a responsible corporate citizen and will be in environmental compliance.
- Environmental standards will be incorporated into corporate culture.
- There will be transparency in operations and the implementation of this policy.
- Associated is committed to good stewardship of natural resources and using those resources in an environmentally responsible manner and as efficiently as possible consistent with being a low-cost and reliable electric supplier.
- Participation in environmental policy debates is critical to balancing environmental policy with economic reality.
- Environmental impact will be included in Associated's planning process.
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