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Extending discounts for members

For the fourth consecutive year, Associated provided discounts for members that have totaled $253 million. While historic

inflation impacted every other aspect of daily life, Associated’s members could count on the stability of affordable
electricity. To help mitigate the impact of rising costs and a needed rate increase in 2023 – the cooperative’s first since
2017 – the Associated board extended demand discounts through March 31, 2023.

Member rate discounts Incentivizing energy efficiency
Take Control & Save, a suite of energy efficiency services and rebates
funded by Associated and its member systems, provides significant finan-
In millions of dollars cial incentives for member-consumers to save energy. In a win-win for
300 Associated and its member systems, Take Control & Save offers 15 rebates
to improve energy efficiency across the system, helping families save mon-
ey on heating and cooling equipment, smart thermometers, weatherization
250 improvements, residential energy audits and more. Associated benefits by
253
generating less energy than it otherwise would during periods of peak use.
200
More than 75,000 More than $70 million

150 member-consumers invested by Associat-
have participated in

ed and participating
the program since cooperatives since
100 2008. 2008.

84
50 65 68

36
0
2019 2020 2021 2022 Total In 2022, the board extended
the Take Control & Save
program through 2025.

$68 million $253 million
in member rate in total member rate
discounts in 2022 discounts since 2019

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