Resource Planning
A balanced approach for the future

Tri-State's resource planning includes a comprehensive set of supply-side and demand-side programs to help meet the current and future energy requirements of the association's 44 member cooperatives with a reliable, cost-efficient supply of power.

Tri-State is pursuing a variety of supply-side resources, including natural gas, renewable energy and baseload generation projects.   And, to ensure that the association can continue to reliably serve its member systems, new transmission projects will carry needed energy throughout the West.

With its member cooperatives, Tri-State promotes programs that help consumers better manage their energy use and help achieve a balanced approach to energy needs.

Since launching the plan in 2005, Tri-State has achieved the following benchmarks toward its balanced energy goals:

• Launched a successful CFL program to its member co-ops, helping distribute more than 125,000 bulbs in 2007.
• Secured natural gas resources that will be online 2009 to meet near-term needs.
• Sent out a request for proposals for renewable energy resources to be online by 2011.
• Filed a purpose and need statement with the Colorado PUC for the construction of the Eastern Plains Transmission Project.

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