Affordable and Renewable Power
My expertise in distributed energy and wind power taught me that a diverse energy portfolio is required for grid stability, energy security, and affordability. I work to empower counties across the country to ensure wind and solar development match their community’s values.
What Jenn brings to the table
Utility Experience
My career has allowed me to work with rural stakeholders around the country as pressure to adapt to looming energy demand overwhelms our small communities. I have launched many initiatives that strengthen rural communities, most notably, the Rural Energy Academy in partnership with the National Association of Counties where we provide technical assistance to empower rural counties prior to outsiders coming in and telling them what they need or what is best for them.
Collaborative Leadership:
I am proud of, and will leverage, my longstanding relationships with national labs and other rural utilities across the country that can provide best practices and solutions as LPEA drives toward its goals. I love our community and rural communities in general. My pledge to you is to honor our values as rural stakeholders, rather than exploiting our differences, to keep electricity bills affordable, and to advance innovation responsibly.
Durango has been my home since 2013 and rural cooperatives have been a focus of my work since 2004. I am running to be your District 3 Board Representative to utilize my 20 years of utility and clean energy experience to give back to my community. I am eager to contribute my expertise to secure an affordable and sustainable future power supply for all LPEA members. We all share concerns that spiraling energy costs could impact our families, neighbors, and community. Keeping rates low during this time of unprecedented load growth requires awareness of the existing national resources available to support rural utilities, as well as the ability to be nimble and proactive as threats of wildfires in our region loom.
My expertise in distributed energy and wind power taught me that a diverse energy portfolio is required for grid stability, energy security, and affordability. I work with counties across the country that are facing similar technology shifts and record load growth as our community is experiencing. My work involves all technologies, but the goal remains the same: to empower rural communities to decide for themselves if these technologies match their community’s values.
My career has allowed me to work with the diverse groups of rural stakeholders around the country as pressure to adapt to looming energy demand overwhelms our small communities. I have launched many initiatives that strengthen rural communities, most notably, the Rural Energy Academy in partnership with the National Association of Counties where we provide technical assistance to empower rural counties prior to outsiders coming in and telling them what they need or what is best for them.
I am proud of, and will leverage, my longstanding relationships with national labs and other rural utilities that can provide best practices and solutions as LPEA drives toward its goals. I have an established record of Board leadership dating back to 2004 that will lend to continued support of staff and providing new ideas and solutions to any challenges that may arise during my term.
I love our community and rural communities in general. We are a unique breed, those of us who choose more space and fewer people. This is a value that we all share, despite our differences. My pledge to you is to honor our values as rural stakeholders, rather than exploiting our differences, to keep electricity bills affordable, and to advance innovation responsibly.
- Jenn Jenkins