Minnesota Power is committed to partnering with area students, teachers, and schools to achieve conservation and scholastic goals. Through programs like Learn & Earn, students are challenged to explore and promote the economic and environmental benefits of energy conservation. In addition, Minnesota Power offers rebates and incentives to individual schools through the PowerGrant program to assist with improving the energy efficiency of school facilities. When one school embraces conservation, teachers, parents, and the community will follow—each school has the power to make a difference.
Dave Gregoire, a science teacher at Little Falls Community Middle School and the event manager for Learn and Earn in Little Falls puts it this way,
“One of the most important benefits of “Learn and Earn” is that it ties students, teachers, parents, and the community together on ideas to conserve our resources. It encourages all of us to take ownership in our resource use and emphasizes how important it is to conserve.”
John Rashid, AIA, manager of design and construction at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), has this to say about working with MP on energy efficiency measures at UMD,
“Minnesota Power is good at helping us identify and evaluate projects that will qualify for rebates. We have a strong working relationship.”
