What’s
on the Minds of Nebraskans...
Where
Will Our Electricity Come from Tomorrow?
The
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) has a long-term Energy Supply Strategy
to meet customers’ future energy needs and a strategic goal to add additional
renewable energy sources to its power generation portfolio. Before proceeding
with its plans, the utility’s management wanted to see what the people
who ultimately own the system, use the electricity generated by the power
district, and pay the bills thought of the strategy.
NPPD decided to use Deliberative Polling® to find out its owners’ thoughts
because the method obtains informed public opinion based on a statistically
representative customer sample.
After considering the results, which showed phenomenal support for the
addition of power generation from wind, the NPPD Board of Directors decided
to construct a wind energy facility with 30 megawatts for NPPD, and up
to an additional 45 megawatts de pending on finding customers for the
additional wind energy.
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A detailed overview of the Deliberative Polling® process and how it
worked appeared in “21st Century Polling” in the March-April 2004 issue
of Public Powerhttp://www.appanet.org/newsroom/magazine/2004/21stCenturyPolling.cfm
- The
results of the polling process is contained in Nebraska Public Power
District Customer Meeting on Energy Alternatives reports/d_p_final_rept.htm">reports/d_p_final_rept.htm
Grants
from the Western Area Power Administration and the Nebraska Energy Office
provided partial support for the project.
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