News Release

For Immediate Release                                                                     

Contact:  Jim Cooper, Key Accounts & Marketing Mgr., Traverse City Light & Power

               Phone: (231) 932-4560 or E-mail: jcooper@tclp.org

Contact:  Phil Callighan, Sr. Account Executive, Knorr Marketing

   Phone: (231) 947-9707, ext. 207; Mobile: (231) 342-7590

               or E-mail: philc@knorrmarketing.com

L&P Presenting Strategic Plan Tuesday Night

Board Seeks Public Comment

(Traverse City, Michigan) — The Traverse City Light & Power Board of Directors will present its new Strategic Plan at their next regularly scheduled meeting this coming Tuesday night, February 10, beginning at 5:15 p.m. at the Boardman Governmental  Center (400 Boardman Avenue, 2^nd floor). “Achieving 30% of our electric power requirements through renewable energy resources by 2020 is among our new goals,” said Linda Johnson, chair person of the L&P Board. “This is more aggressive than the renewable energy portfolio standards passed by the Michigan legislature last year and was inspired, in part, by the feedback we received from the public forums we conducted last September.”

            All L&P ratepayers are encouraged to attend next Tuesday evening’s meeting and comment on the utility’s strategic goals. “It’s important for our ratepayers to understand why certain goals we have identified are important, steps we are taking to achieve them and how they affect all of us,” said Johnson.

Traverse City Light & Power (www.tclp.org) is a community-owned, community-focused municipal utility that offers reliable energy at low rates in the region to over 10,000 customers in Traverse City, and parts of Blair, East Bay, Elmwood, Garfield, Peninsula and Paradise townships.