New York Power Authority Offers Speakers Bureau Programs

Contact:
Stephen Ramsey
1-800-724-0309
stephen.ramsey@nypa.gov 

April 5, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NORTH BLENHEIM—The Speakers Bureau at the New York Power Authority’s (NYPA) Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project can assist in making today’s complex energy issues easy for everyone to understand. The Bureau is a free service designed to help explain energy issues in presentations to community organizations and schools.

Speakers Bureau members provide talks, slide shows, videos and demonstrations covering a wide range of energy-related topics.

The presentations include:

• - The New York Power Authority: Our Mission

• - The Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project: On Call to Help You

• - Home Energy Conservation

• - Demonstration of NYPA’s Electric and Hybrid Vehicles

• - The Basics of Electricity (Grades 3-6)

• - The Shocking Truth: Electrical Safety for Students (Grades 4-8)

• - Careers in the Electric Utility Industry

For more information or to arrange for a speaker, please call 1-800-724-0309 or visit on the web at www.nypa.gov.  

About NYPA:

 ■    NYPA uses no tax money or state credit.  It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity.  ■    NYPA is a leader in promoting energy-efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives.  ■    It is the nation’s largest state-owned electric utility, with 18 generating facilities in various parts of the state and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines.

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