A total of $5,115.67 was raised for Energy Outreach Colorado this fall when the Colorado electric cooperatives’ Powering the Plains bike team rode in the annual Pedal the Plains bike tour of Colorado’s eastern plains.
The funds were raised by the 23-member team, which rode 177 miles from Kersey to Keenesburg to Brush and back to Kersey. The team raised $3,412.17. Basin Electric, one of the co-op power suppliers, matched $1,350 of the co-ops’ donations. Pedal the Plains also donated a percentage of the team’s registration fees to EOC, adding another $353.50 for EOC.
Energy Outreach Colorado is a nonprofit organization that helps low-income Coloradans throughout the state with heating assistance, emergency furnace repair and energy efficiency improvements.