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Taking a short shower instead of a long bath can help save energy |
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Gascosage Electric Cooperative
Take Control and Save!
Energy Audit Program
Bulbs Available for 2010!
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Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs are more energy-efficient and less expensive in the long term than traditional incandescent lighting. These versatile bulbs provide high-quality light and reduce pollution, and can be used nearly anywhere incandescent bulbs are used. Click here or on the picture to see how the program works!
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Gascosage and Our Community
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Scholarships
Every year, Gascosage Electric Cooperative awards eighteen $1000 scholarships to area seniors whose parents or guardians are members of the Cooperative. The seniors are selected among numerous applicants from local high schools in the area. The applications are rendered anonymous by a numbering system. Nonpartisan judges select the winners who each receive a $1000 scholarship to an accredited college, university, technical school or trade school.
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Distant Learning
Gascosage Electric recognized that the excess capacity existing in the fiber required to transmit data to the Cooperative could provide Distance Learning opportunities to our local schools. Gascosage and Sho-Me Power officials assisted the schools by funding the writing of federal and state grant proposals to assist in financing the project. The Cooperative was instrumental in obtaining additional funding through Missouri state grants, the Educational Rates & Universal Service Fund, and RUS Distance Learning grants and loans. The Cooperative also helped fund the installation and maintenance of the equipment. All of these efforts have brightened the future of local children by raising their standard of education to meet the curriculums of better-funded, urban schools. The Missouri State Department of Education regards this Distance Learning Program as a standard of teaching innovation.
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Youth Tour
Each year, Gascosage Electric Cooperative awards an all expense paid trip to Washington, DC, each year to four high school juniors from area schools (Crocker, Dixon, Iberia and Newburg) based on essays written about Rural Electrification. Essays are judged based on knowledge of the subject, originality, composition, neatness and grammar. A panel of judges from Sho-Me Power Cooperative then interviews and determines the finalists. Local contest winners spend five days visiting places of historical interest and meeting members of Congress. Finalists are eligible to compete for a position as the Missouri State Representative in the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Youth Leadership Council. |
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Christmas Lights
Crews from Gascosage string Christmas lights in time for the holidays for the towns in our service territory. The Cooperative donates the expense of this electricity to the communities. Our consumers enjoy the decorations and comment on how festive and comforting the twinkling lights appear in each town.
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Severe Weather Radios
The 2003 annual meeting of Gascosage Electric Cooperative in Dixon, was briefly paused to include the dedication of a new, 1000-watt NOAA radio transmitter activated to alert severe weather warnings for the residents of Pulaski, Phelps, Maries and Miller Counties. The partnership and cooperation between Gascosage Electric, Sho-Me Power in Marshfield, the National Weather Service and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), made this improvement in severe weather radio coverage possible for Dixon and the surrounding areas. |
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