The Littlest User (via Tracy on the road)

Kim Harvey, customer service representative at Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association.

In the May/June 2010 issue of Basin Today, we told you about Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association‘s MyMeter program. It helps consumers understand and manage their use of electricity. The story was called Demystifying the kilowatt-hour.

At the end of this month, the cooperative will be wrapping up a competition that used MyMeter to track the electricity use of six families. Check out the story below.

It sounds similar to "The Biggest Loser" on NBC… but there's a lot less energy involved. The Littlest User Contest is a clever competition between Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association (WH) and Lake Region Electric Cooperative (LREC) in Minnesota. Each cooperative has six family teams (of course they're member-consumers) competing to use the least amount of electricity this summer.  WH’s six family teams are collectively referred to a … Read More

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