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Conservation Conservation MMPA is pursuing a variety of conservation activities, including invest- ments in demand-side management and energy efficiency. The Agency's conservation offerings improve efficiency, put money back into member communities, and help support local economic development. The Agency's conservation program includes Another member partnered with a local a range of offerings to customers, such as hardware store to provide a free LED bulb to residential appliance and lighting rebates, electric customers who presented a coupon. commercial lighting retrofits,energy audits, and This program coincided with the hardware custom projects for commercial and industrial store's 125th anniversary event and over 200 customers. Conservation and demand-side bulbs were given away. management are also important components Three members collaborated with a compa- of MMPA's long-term planning and can help ny that mailed kits containing 3 LED bulbs, a utility defer investment in new generating conservation tips, and information on other assets or additional power purchases. rebate programs to customers who responded MMPA's 2014 conservation program achieved to a postcard mailing. This program was very its 1.5% Conservation Improvement Program popular among customers and over 5,000 kits (CIP) spending requirement and had kWh were distributed. savings of just under 1% of average retail sales. The Agency added efficient freezers to its residential appliance rebate offerings. One member worked with a large industrial customer on a $35,000 custom rebate for an / energy efficient variable speed drive controlled I ` �5 � I I / blower in its waste water treatment plant. The I' r'J,; blower replaced equipment that was more than 20 years old and has projected annual energy ' savings of more than 815,000 kWh. Igrr 2014 MMPA Annual Report 19