Being good stewards of the environment is everyone's responsibility and working together, we all can do our part.

What YOU Can Do

1. Conserve Energy During Peak Summer Months

By practicing energy conservation, you can help the environment, especially during the peak electricity usage times from 3pm to 7pm.  During these peak times, electric companies have to run older generation units with fewer pollution controls to create the electricity to meet the higher demands.

2. Become Smarter or Efficient With Your Electricity Use.

• replace your heating and air-conditioning filters every 3 months and check them every month

• install programmable thermostats to better regulate heating and cooling when no one is in the building and/or room

• replace your incandescent light bulbs with florescent and/or LED light bulbs.

• use EPA Energy Star rated products

• visit the links under the LP&L green logo for more

3. Renewable Electricity Generation

LP&L electric customers ask us about their options of installing renewable electric generation facilities on their property and LP&L’s does not promote nor discourage our customers from doing this.  In the electricity industry we call this type of electricity generation distributed power systems and while there are many worthy systems available, there are many more that may not be so worthy depending on how you define worth.  If our customers chose to install electric generation systems on their property they need to consider if they will use all the power they generate, if they will store it, or if they will control when or how much they will generate. 

Some power companies allow their customers to sell excess power they generate back to the company in what the electric industry calls net metering.  In order for LP&L to purchase excess energy from our customers, LP&L would have to have net metering in our Electric Rates and at this time net metering is not addressed in the tariff.   

What LP&L Is Doing

LP&L is increasing the amount of electricity we purchase for our customers from renewable generation sources.  Currently, the electricity we purchase for our customers comes from one the nation's largest generators of wind energy.

Each year between 5% and 10% of the electricity LP&L provides to our customers come from wind generation sources located in West Texas and Eastern new Mexico.

LP&L also understands that just purchasing electricity from renewable sources is a good start, but LP&L is doing more. 

LP&L has an internal Environmental Management System (EMS) that has been recognized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. 

To learn more about LP&L's EMS, click on the Clean Texas Bronze Member image under the LP&L green logo. 

Additionally, LP&L employees 2 Registered Environmental Managers, one of the nations top environmental certifications,  who direct LP&L's Environmental Compliance Program.  The Program has been operational since 1997.