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Thursday, December 8, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Group supports energy education
By HENRY LOCKARD
Staff Writer
Kansans must make a commitment to understand energy conservation if they expect to hold down rising utility costs, or reduce the Energy Project (PEP) last week.
Paul Johnson, the PEP member and a paralegal researcher for the Legal Aid Society of Topeka Inc., said education and consciousness about energy sources were important to anyone concerned with saving money on his utility bill.
Johnson is one of a group of Lawrence citizens who joined in 1974 to develop expertise about utility demand and how rates are determined. They formed the People's Energy Project.
Diane Labee, 714 N. Fourth St., was one of the project's founders.
She said she were about 10 University of Kansas students among the 25 persons in the project. The project members are interviewing the students in an official issue they can watch develop, she said.
"FOR THE MIDWEST anyway, we were ahead of our time as far as community awareness groups were concerned," Luber said.
"At the time we started, the Kansas power and Light Co. (KFLG) announced a plan to build a $10 million project."
crease in the history of the company. So we could issue an for an issue we could study, she said.
KP&L, requested an increase of $11,104,440, a 13 per cent hike. But the Kansas Corporation Commission allowed an increase of $7,131,000, about an 8 per cent increase.
"The group was ahead of its time because 'energy wasn't really an important issue back then.' Luber said. "People didn't know what to do." The situation was. But now energy is an issue."
Luber said the original group tried to teach energy awareness to the average utility customer, and that effort frustrated many of the project members.
JOHNSON AGREED that the group was not so active as it once was.
He said the group wanted to defend the public against being taken advantage of by the authorities.
KP&L and other similar companies are encouraged by the federal government to
He also said, "Wall Street pushes money and the companies get their money by buying it," so the new expansion might be. So the companies are going to want to grow. It's a
Johnson said the group was a kind of free university. He said members had spoken to classes and community groups and had held an energy crusade on the Capitol steps in
vicious circle that we need to pull out of our system if we want to save money.
The group also intervened in the hearings for the PKL&l rate increase in 1974, he said.
Johnson said that more people are aware of energy today than they were three years ago.
One reason for increased awareness was that rates had increased tremendously over the years.
He encouraged people to learn to regulate their energy use.
By 1900, he added, the rates will be unbelievable.
"We need to shift the time of our peak demand for energy. We need to balance our demand."
It's a state law that power plants must be able to supply communities with power for emergencies.
peak. And that maximum demand determines when it's necessary for a utility system to be operational.
Johnson said that rather than expanding the utility companies, people should strive to reduce their consumption.
JOHNSON also disproves of research into nuclear energy. He said nuclear energy is "the most efficient source of electricity."
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