AECI continues to improve its environmental performance
Associated Electric Cooperative has always been environmentally responsible, and the cooperative has a strong history of fulfilling its environmental commitments while continuing to meet members' needs for affordable and stable electricity rates.
AECI has taken an aggressive approach to improving air quality. Since 1994, AECI has reduced by 90 percent its systemwide sulfur dioxide emissions rate and its systemwide nitrogen oxides emissions rate 90.
Nominated by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, AECI received a national award for restoring the Bee Veer mine in Macon County, Mo., to productive pasture, woodlands and wetlands for wildlife. Read the news release.
AECI achieved these reductions by investing more than $1 billion since 1994, including conversion of its coal units to low-sulfur coal, closing its Missouri mine and installing additional air quality controls. Most recently, Associated finished construction of new and upgraded environmental controls at Thomas Hill Energy Center to achieve a NOx emissions rate systemwide that is nearly 90 percent below its emissions rate in 1994.
AECI also is the leader in Missouri wind energy. AECI's commitment to buy all the power from four wind farms in northwest Missouri for 20 years and system cooperatives' vast transmission system made the wind farms possible. Read more about the first utility-scale wind farms in Missouri.
Rural electric cooperatives also have always been leaders in energy efficiency, and AECI implemented systemwide its "Take Control & Save" energy efficiency program to further build on individual cooperatives’ energy efficiency programs.
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