Alternative Energy is Happening

In 2002 Oregon voters accepted Senate Bill 1149, enabling public utilities companies, like Portland's local PGE, to offer renewable energy alternatives. (The senate bill made into law what PGE had already initiated 4 years before: offering renewable energy to it's customers)

Guess what, a decade on, the program is #1 in the nation:

• Wind companies have invested 4 and a half billion in Oregon already
• Oregon ranked # 2 in the 2010 US Clean Energy leadership index.
• Growth in non-hydro renewable energy capacity has risen in Oregon 530% from ten years ago
• $143 million invested in commercial and private solar projects across the state

Which means, Oregon has avoided putting 3.1 billion pounds of CO2 into the sky. Just another reason to love Oregon's green.

Find a list of all the local businesses who buy renewable power from PGE at GreenPowerOregon.com