If you are one of our Iowa customers, our Power of Trees program provides tree-planting opportunities to communities and organizations in Black Hills Energy Iowa service territories.
The annual grant program is made possible through a partnership with Trees Forever. If your community is interested in a tree-planting projects, applications and details are available at http://www.treesforever.org/Power_of_trees and are due Nov. 1.
Together we've planted 81,642 trees and seedlings since 1992!
In 2018
22 projects completed
910 landscaped trees planted
827 seedlings planted
902 volunteers
1,231,665 (gal) Stormwater filtered
104,429 kWh saved
A well-placed tree helps save on your energy bill, and is just one way we help our customers with energy saving solutions. Learn more ways you can save money and energy.
Don't forget to call 811 at least two business days before you plan to plant your tree to have underground utility lines marked. It’s free, it’s safe and it’s the law.
Now is a great time to plant a tree – both for our own mental health, and for the tree’s health.