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Title:	Energy Transitions
Date:	10/11/2025 - 1/11/2026
Address:	Museum of Northwest Art, 121 South First Street, La Conner, WA 98257
Location:	La Conner, WA
Hours:	Sundays & Mondays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 10:00am - 5:00pm, Second Saturdays: 10:00am - 8:00pm
Cost/Cover:	free
Web Page:	https://www.monamuseum.org/outside-in-energy-transitions
Contact Info:	(360) 466-4446

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The Skagit Valley Clean Energy Alliance is pleased to present Energy Transitions, a multimedia display about transitions of energy supply and technologies, from prehistory through today. Did you know that the first time a politician suggested that coal could be phased out was in the late 1840’s? And that coal has mostly been phased out already? We don’t have steam trains, sternwheel paddle boats, coke furnaces or town gas street lights anymore. Today’s declining use of coal as an electric generation fuel is just the most recent part of a long story. Today’s controversies aren’t very different from what’s happened throughout history. The systems used to provide and use energy have changed in major ways over thousands of years. These changes are “energy transitions.” Major energy transitions don’t happen often: the last one was when the electric grid was introduced in the 1880’s. The energy crises of the 1970’s stimulated research and development on supply technologies, and on systems that use energy, like lighting, heating and transportation. The resulting innovations are driving a new set of major energy transitions in the present day. Energy Transitions tells that story. The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. The oil age will end long before we run out of oil. Come, explore and find out how it’s happening.