GEORGIA'S ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES POWER STUDENT ROBOTICS COMPETITION WITH RENEWABLE ENERGY
TUCKER, Ga., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia's electric cooperatives provided renewable energy to help power several FIRST Robotics Competition events, including the 2023 Peachtree District Championship which kicked off today in Emerson, Georgia.
- TUCKER, Ga., April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia's electric cooperatives provided renewable energy to help power several FIRST Robotics Competition events, including the 2023 Peachtree District Championship which kicked off today in Emerson, Georgia.
- Green Power EMC, the renewable energy supplier for 38 Georgia Electric Membership Cooperatives (EMCs), is a "Friend of the Future" sponsor of the Peachtree District Championship.
- At the Gwinnett Qualifier event hosted in March, renewable energy to power the robotics competition was provided by Jackson EMC, an electric cooperative serving Gwinnett and other area counties – and also a member-owner of Green Power EMC.
- To power the events with renewable energy, Cobb EMC, Flint Energies and Jackson EMC provided Renewable Energy Certificates to GeorgiaFIRST for the energy required to charge the students' robots.