University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1982
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KU could benefit
KP&L urging summer electricity cutback
By LISA GUTIERREZ Staff Reporter
Kansas Power and Light Co. announced Wednesday a plan to "Save the Megawatt" to help residential customers summertime demand for electricity.
If successful, the summertime load is reduced by 100,000 kilowatts. KP&L will not build a fourth power plant at its Jeffery Energy Center, near St. Mary's, Hal Hudson, director of public affairs, for KP&L in Topka, said recently.
"The third unit will come on line in 1983," Hudson said. "We hope we not have to build the fourth one for another five years or more."
Effective yesterday, KP&L will pay its residential customers to replace old air conditioners with more efficient models or electric heat pumps. KP&L will also finance the cost at low interest rates for up to five years.
ACCORDING TO Marvin Stacken,
K&P L manager of commercial
marketing, bonuses are available for
single family residences:
- $200 for electric customers who replace their electric central air conditioning system with a new heat pump
with an efficiency ratio (EER) of 8.5 or more. The EER is determined by dividing the British thermal unit of water by the number of watts needed to run it.
- $100 for those who install an add-
beat pump with a EER of 8.5 or
less
- $100 for those who replace their air
conditioning system with a new unit
that works better.
- $120 for those who install a gas air conditioning system.
"The higher the EER, the better."
Thus, an SOEER of 0 or better thumbs on five.
"Our effort is directed toward those customers who will be buying new equipment over the next five years. We want to help them buy the best rather than the cheapest available. We also want them to consider electric heat pumps as a more economical way of heating their homes."
Hudson said the immediate benefits for customers would be a reduction in
the number of kilowatt hours of electricity they buy.
A REDUCTION in operating ex-
pressions, a long-range advantage," Hudson said.
"In the summer we are forced to use oil, but we have to require oil and some require natural gas, or
"If demand is less, our more efficient machines would be used first. It doesn't mean customers' bills will be lower, but rate increases will slow down."
What this means for the University of Kansas, a non-residential KF&L institution, is that it must provide
"KU buys electricity at whatever prevailing rates are." Hudson said. "A
smaller rate increase in 1984 or 1985 would mean savings."
KU OFFICIALS agreed with this possibility.
"I don't really think our electricity bills would be cheaper, but the rate increases will slow," said Richard Kunze, director of KDU's facilities operations.
Savings could add up for the University, he said. In fiscal year 1980, KU paid $1,900,000 in electrical bills. In 1981, the University paid $2,659,000.
Hudson said that KU students who lived in apartments would also benefit from the plan, since cash rebates equal to one-fourth the listed above for the family — residences — were available and installed the equipment in apartments.
Voters file a petition for recall of Gleason
in response to Gleason's Feb. 4 letter to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that Watson resign or face the possibility of being fired.
Lawrence drew a step closer to having its first recall election of a city official when the county clerk yesterday received signatures on a petition requesting a recall election Commissioner Tom Gleason.
The county clerk must find 3,760 valid signatures of registered Lawrence voters for an election to be scheduled, he said.
The county clerk will take about a week to validate the signatures for an election to be held, Fred Pence, a former mayor, said yesterday.
A date has not been set for the possible recall election.
However, Gleason said he did not move to fire Watson in the commission's closed sessions on Feb. 18 and 20.
If the election is held, voters will have the choice of voting for or against Gleason, and the remaining four commissioners will appoint Gleason's successor should he lose, James Postma, an attorney and member of the Lawrence Committee, said recently.
Pence is a member of the Lawrence Committee, which collected more than 4,000 signatures
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