As part of HCE's newly updated Strategic Plan, we are proud to announce an ambitious new goal to provide 100% carbon-free electricity to our members and communities by 2030. 

This new goal, 100x30, further builds upon Seventy70Thirty, first announced in September 2018. The Seventy70Thirty plan was a commitment to source at least 70 percent of our power supply from clean and renewable resources and to reduce future greenhouse gas emissions by at least 70 percent from 2014 levels, with no increase in power supply costs, by 2030.

At the time of its announcement, Seventy70Thirty was among the most ambitious electric utility clean energy plans in the United States. Since that time, we have moved swiftly to execute our plan by securing new wind and solar resources while selling HCE’s share of the energy output from the Comanche Unit 3 coal-fired power plant. 

As our planned new wind and solar projects come online in the next few years, HCE should be able to attain our Seventy70Thirty goals well ahead of schedule, while honoring our commitment to keep power supply costs at or below the levels they would have been. This clear ‘line of sight’ to success motivated your elected Board of Directors to set a more ambitious 100% carbon-free electricity goal that meets our members’ desire for a clean energy future. 

To reach this new 100x30 goal, we will need to partner with you, our members, to incorporate new, clean, dispatchable resources into our power supply mix and effectively integrate a wide range of options for flexible electricity consumption by the homes, buildings, vehicles, and businesses we serve. Energy storage is also likely to play a role, both as large grid-tied resources (e.g., pumped storage) and smaller distributed resources (e.g., electric vehicle batteries).

This announcement is the next step in our commitment to provide, safe, reliable, affordable and increasingly sustainable energy and services that improve the quality of life for you and your community. We can all do our part on this shared journey to one hundred percent clean energy. 

More information on 100x30 can be found at holycross.com/100x30. Please also visit our programs page to learn more about how you can be part of the journey to 100%. 


Sincerely,



Bryan Hannegan
President & CEO