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Leveraging Your Power for Climate Solutions Work with your utility for climate change solutions

Many resorts have invested in energy efficiency and Program, which allows them access to renewable
on-site renewables, but they only go so far in trying energy sources to meet their sustainable energy
to meet ambitious goals, like getting to 100-percent needs and reduce carbon emissions. The program
renewable sourced electricity. To make up the differ- delivers clean solar energy with no equipment neces-
ence, resorts are tapping into the grid and working sary and a chance to save money, and it is so popular
with their utilities toward solutions. there is a waitlist to participate!
Climate Challengers and other resorts are making Promising work is also being done by Challengers
great headway working with their utilities to “decar- intervening in state public utility proceedings to green
bonize the grid” or increase the amount of their the grid on a broader level and have far-reaching
energy sourced from renewables. The timing is ripe impacts beyond the resort community.
for such action, and here is why. Many states have Finally, another new trend is resort support of
mandates to increase the percentage of renewable energy storage on site through batteries, which can
energy on the grid. On top of that, solar and wind serve as back-up energy sources and store renew-
are quickly becoming cheaper sources of electricity, able energy. This clean back-up power can be used
making it cost effective and attractive for utilities during high-demand periods, during blackouts
to move in this direction. Use of fossil fuels by utili- (when ski areas typically use diesel generators),
ties also comes with the risk of future fossil fuel price or when renewables are not producing (e.g., solar
spikes, which is not the case with renewables. As ski at night).
areas are often the biggest customer in a utility’s port- Call your utility today! You don't need to be in the
folio, utilities are inclined to work cooperatively to Climate Challenge to take this action and help reduce
meet their demands for increased renewable energy. your carbon footprint. For more information on these
For example, ski areas in Summit County, Colo., initiatives, see Chapter 3 of the Sustainable Slopes
are all enrolled in Xcel Energy’s Renewable*Connect Annual Report (2018). —GL

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