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	CPS Energy Connects with Students Through Mentoring Program Nine-week program offers area students the chance to see how professionals in the utility industry use math and science on an everyday basis in their career.
	CPS Energy Serves Up Energy-Saving Advice for McDonald's Some of McDonald’s golden arches are getting a little greener in San Antonio thanks to McDonald’s Restaurant Owners Lita and Joe Salazar and CPS Energy’s Retail Energy team.
	Storm Recovery CPS Energy Storm Recovery Teams respond to the calls from coastal communities battered by summer hurricanes.
	CPS Energy Helps Louisiana Restore Power in Aftermath of Hurricane Gustav As remnants of Hurricane Gustav rolled out of Louisiana, a CPS Energy storm recovery team rolled in to Lafayette recently to help restore power to homes and businesses in the storm-battered city.
	Energy-Conscious Couple Saves a Bundle At first glance, the home of Alan Montemayor and his wife, Cheryl Hamilton, looks like any other house on the block. A small Windtricity® sign staked in the couple’s front yard and a tree blocking the late-afternoon sun may lend a few clues to what makes their home different. To find out, someone would have to take a close look at a three-page list prepared by Montemayor and Hamilton titled, “Energy Strategies.”
	CPS Energy Employees Walk and Roll the Talk Pedaling a 24-speed Trek road bike over the scorching asphalt of back roads in 90-degree temperatures is a way Asset Manager Lee Byrd gets a good workout. It’s also a way he contributed to CPS Energy’s first place win in the 2008 Walk & Roll Corporate Challenge, commuting from CPS Energy’s main office building in downtown San Antonio to his New Braunfels home more than 30 miles away.
	CPS Energy VIPS Help Senior Citizens Endure Hot Summer With Fan Drive During a four-week drive, CPS Energy employees donated more than $25,000 to purchase six truckloads of fans. Those donations bought 2,400 box fans for the community-wide Project Cool campaign to help disadvantaged Bexar County senior citizens beat the South Texas heat.
	Boy Scouts Take Energy Conservation to Heart CPS Energy hosted about 150 Boy Scouts, teaching them about energy conservation and efficiency as part of CPS Energy Merit Badge Workshops.
	Children with Special Needs Reel In New Experience Jocelyn Veazey, 11, has been fishing before, but she never caught much besides some seaweed and a few sticks. It wasn’t until ‘Kid Fish Day’, sponsored by CPS Energy, that she got the chance to reel in quite a catch.
	CPS Energy Casts Vision of Energy Efficient Future at 2008 Energy Summit Addressing a crowd of about 300 community leaders and stakeholders at the 2008 Energy Summit, Futurist Jeremy Rifkin said CPS Energy is fully capable of helping usher in the dawn of a sustainable energy age in the U.S.
	Eco-Friendly Resident Looks to Windtricity Susan Scheetz’s love for the outdoors gives her motivation to maintain an earth-friendly lifestyle. Scheetz, a resident of Helotes, does what she can to recycle, save water and conserve energy around her home.
	Braunig, Calaveras Lakes: San Antonio's Water-Saving Landmarks For over 40 years, CPS Energy has conserved one of San Antonio’s most precious resources: the Edwards Aquifer. Instead of using aquifer drinking water to cool its power plants near Calaveras and Braunig Lakes, CPS Energy uses treated sewage effluent from the San Antonio River.