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Newsletters from the South Dakota Electrical Council

The South Dakota Electrical Council publishes a newsletter at least twice a year. The most current is archived here.  

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Energy Saving News

It's a New Year and let's start off by  helping with Change A Light program! The PUC is looking for more people who want to save money and energy by changing at least one incandescent light bulb in their home or office to an energy efficient model, like a compact fluorescent light (CFL) . 

If each South Dakota household changes one light bulb to a CFL, every year we would:

Save $1.1 million.

Save enough energy to light all of the bulbs in Pierre for 480 days.

Keep 5,600 tons of coal from being burned.

The commitment is easy. Direct your friends, neighbors, relatives, paper carriers and pet groomers to this link:

 http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.showpledge&cpd_id=1266

Here, they will simply enter their name, e-mail address (optional), ZIP code and the number of bulbs they will change this year. Or, you can go to our Web site at www.puc.sd.gov  and click on the "South Dakota Change A Light Pledge" link in the center of the home page to get to the pledge form.

Thanks to all of you who have already pledged and for passing the good word on to others to pledge.

Steve Wegman

South Dakota Public Utilities Commission

State Capitol Building

Pierre, SD  57501

Wind-E-Newsletters 

The Wind-E-Newsletter is available at http://www.state.sd.us/puc/energy/wind.htm

The following is an excerpt from a letter from Steven Hietpas, Ph.d., P.E, SD State University 

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Dear SDEC Members,

 On behalf of South Dakota State University and the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, I want to thank the SDEC and its membership in their $1000 support towards the purchase of components required to build programmable capacitor banks.  The total cost of the project was on the order of $6000.  

With these new capacitor banks, the quality of the laboratory exercises has already greatly increased.  Students are obtaining better values throughout their laboratory exercises and feel generally pleased with the new capacitor banks.

Sincerely,

Steven Hietpas, Ph.d., P.E.

Professor, Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator

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