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From weatherizing your home to creating an emergency plan — there's plenty you can do around your home and business to be ready for the change in seasons. We're here to help you stay safe, be prepared and save energy.
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When it came to lighting up his home for the holidays, Clark Griswold stopped it nothing to make sure his place was the brightest on the block.
Griswold, who was the star of the 1989 holiday classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, was determined to have a “fun, old-fashioned, family…
The holiday season is upon us. It’s time to bring out the fine china, hang up the Christmas lights and get cozy around the hearth.
But before you take part in all of the merriment, here are some simple safety tips to help make sure you enjoy the entire season.
How to safely bring out the fine…
The signs were all around me when I made a quick shopping trip this week. Snow boots are taking the place of sandals in the shoe section. Gallon jugs of apple cider are taking over the store displays where sweet summer lemonade once enjoyed prime real estate. Christmas trees have even taken over…
Daylight Saving Time is your chance to keep your home running like clockwork.
On Sunday, March 13, 2022, Daylight Light Saving Time starts, and we turn our clocks ahead one hour.
The notion of Daylight Saving Time was the brainchild of Benjamin Franklin. According to the Franklin Institute…
It’s fall! Time to sip on pumpkin spice lattes, jump in the leaves and settle into long Sunday afternoons watching football.
Savor all things fall even more with the peace of mind that your furnace is ready for the changing seasons.
Your furnace enjoyed a nice summer vacation, but now it’s time…
Customer Service Week runs October 7-11, 2019.
It’s an international celebration of the importance of customer service and the people who serve and support customers on a daily basis.
Customer service comes in many forms at Black Hills Energy, from Field Technicians and Linemen to Natural Gas…
It’s spooky season!
And while I’m happy to hand out treats to all of the little ghosts and goblins who come to my front door on Halloween, I’m not too keen on the vampires lurking around my home.
It’s likely you have vampires in your home, too – energy vampires, to be exact.
The Department of…
You’ve probably been taking steps to be more energy efficient without realizing it.
Don’t believe me? Take a quick scan of your home. How many of your electronics are labeled with a bright blue ENERGY STAR logo?
The ENERGY STAR program was designed to help us save money and protect the…
National Drive Electric Week runs September 14-22, and is the perfect time to consider cruising around in an electric vehicle.
Electric vehicles aren’t new. According to the Department of Energy, the first small-scale electric cars were introduced in 1828. But in recent years, as infrastructure…
Thank you, air conditioner.
You’ve been my rock this summer, always there when I needed you. You were up before dawn, keeping my home a nice 71 degrees so my family could sleep through the night. You worked to cool down the house before we got home from the pool. So it makes it a bit awkward to…
I don’t usually pay much attention to my air conditioner. I switch it on in the summer when I need it, and I forget about during fall, winter and spring.
But it turns out, I’m doing it wrong.
After a long, hot summer spent keeping me comfortable, my air conditioner deserves a little extra…
Let’s be honest: when it comes to cooling my home, I care much more about comfort than I do about cost. If it’s blazing hot outside, I’ll crank my air conditioner way down without thinking twice. It isn’t until my electric bill arrives that I realize the effects of turning my living room in to an…
Positive Energy
As the 2023-2024 school year quickly approaches, it’s important to remember to watch out for children walking to and from school. Even if they are running to school in their sparkly light-up tennis shoes or making their way home with a violin on their back, school-aged children are smaller than the…
Each year, The Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa, celebrates and honors four individuals during the Spirit of Courage event to share their stories of courage during their battles with cancer.
Our company has long been a sponsor and lends volunteer support for the golf…
When a local school superintendent’s request for a few handy people who were good with tools made its way to Brian Sisson, pipeline safety in Kearney, Neb., our team members were up for the task.
On July 14, an overcast and slightly stormy Friday, 12 staff members from the Holdrege region gathered…
Employees of all three offices in Northwest Arkansas recently donated school supplies for the United Way of Northwest Arkansas Fill the Bus school supply drive.
Fill the Bus is an initiative that helps to create a pathway out of poverty for children in our area. Donations help provide needy…