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Climate Challenge Program Participation Letter

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January 27, 1995

The Honorable Hazel O'Leary
Secretary of U. S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585

Dear Secretary O'Leary:

Re: Climate Challenge Program Participation

City Utilities of Springfield, Missouri, is pleased to announce our intent to participate in the Climate Challenge Program. As a utility serving more than 50,000 customers, City Utilities will be negotiating a formal accord with the Department of Energy at a future date. However, we assume that our final agreement will include as a minimum:

    1.
      A concerted attempt to comply with clean air emission limits at our Southwest Power Station by using low sulfur sub-bituminous coal, augmented by natural gas, in lieu of the currently installed flue gas desulfurization system;

    2.

      Purchasing an electric vehicle for use by City Utilities during the next calendar year;

    3.

      Continuation of our demand side management program, with a goal of reducing electrical peak demand by a total of 20 megawatts of combined avoided and time-shifted generation;

    4.

      Our continued commitment to an aggressive tree planting program that will result in a total of 85,000 new trees either planted by the Utility or provided to others by the Utility;

    5.

      The use of higher transmission voltage, reconductoring where cost effective, and new technologies to reduce electrical distribution system losses in our service territory;

    6.

      Purchasing mobile equipment to capture and recycle sulfur hexafluoride (a halogenated gas that is 9300 times more potent than CO2 in trapping atmosphere heat) when servicing equipment which uses this material as a dielectric medium;

    7.

      Reducing future landfill methane emissions by recycling at least 50 tons per year of office paper and cardboard;

    8.

      Various efficiency improvement projects at our power generating stations to reduce auxiliary power consumption;

    9.

      Converting our urban transit fleet from diesel fuel to compressed natural gas.

Taken as a whole, City Utilities anticipates that these actions will result in the reduction or sequestration of 78,000 tons of CO2 or CO2 equivalents by the year 2000. These reductions will be documented, verified, and reported to DOE on an annual basis.

City Utilities looks forward to working with your department in negotiating and implementing this program. Please do not hesitate to contact the Utility for additional details on our planned participation.

Very truly yours,

(Original signed by) Robert E. Roundtree
General Manager

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