{"id":170,"date":"2016-01-12T13:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=170"},"modified":"2016-01-12T12:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T17:23:03","slug":"oregon-looks-to-overhaul-its-electricity-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/oregon-looks-to-overhaul-its-electricity-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon looks to overhaul its electricity supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The largest utility companies in Oregon, along with environmental advocates, agreed to a deal that pushes the state clearly in the direction of renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the most important takeaways from the agreement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Utilities will meet 25 percent of their demand with renewable energy by 2025, and that ratio would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/tech\/science\/environment\/2016\/01\/06\/oregons-largest-utilities-agree-clean-energy-plan\/78361644\/\" title=\"increased to 50 percent by 2040\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>increased to 50 percent by 2040<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Utilities are committed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamplinmedia.com\/sl\/287773-164858-utilities-environmentalists-strike-huge-deal-to-eliminate-use-of-coal-in-oregon-boost-renewable-energy\" title=\"stop selling coal power completely in Oregon by 2035\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>stop selling coal power completely in Oregon by 2035<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oregon&#39;s largest utilities agree to clean energy plan &#10;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dLHGwpy3x5\">https:\/\/t.co\/dLHGwpy3x5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ySjbndcUy4\">pic.twitter.com\/ySjbndcUy4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Statesman Journal (@Salem_Statesman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Salem_Statesman\/status\/685129039346937857\">January 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Solar power and wind power increases are likely<\/h2>\n<p>The new agreement specifies that Oregon&#8217;s electricity come from qualifying renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal or energy efficiency. Existing hydropower doesn&#8217;t count.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, a minuscule 0.02 percent of Oregon&#8217;s electricity comes from solar power, compared to 33.4 percent from coal and 44.7 percent from hydroelectric sources. Wind power currently creates 5.2 percent of the state&#8217;s electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific Power, one of the key utilities in the agreement, has agreed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamplinmedia.com\/sl\/287773-164858-utilities-environmentalists-strike-huge-deal-to-eliminate-use-of-coal-in-oregon-boost-renewable-energy\" title=\"massive investments in wind and solar\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>massive investments in wind and solar<\/strong><\/a>, and the agreement should also make it easier to build large solar energy complexes in the state.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Utilities, environmentalists strike huge deal to eliminate use of coal in Oregon, boost &#8230;: A potentially lan&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V954oGtoPT\">https:\/\/t.co\/V954oGtoPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Portland Tribune (@ThePortlandTrib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePortlandTrib\/status\/686898226142687232\">January 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Source &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/story\/tech\/science\/environment\/2016\/01\/06\/oregons-largest-utilities-agree-clean-energy-plan\/78361644\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Statesman Journal<\/a><\/span><div class=\"pd-photo-att\">Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Telocaset,_Oregon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by Visitor7 \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest utility companies in Oregon, along with environmental advocates, agreed to a deal that pushes the state clearly in the direction of renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,6,5,7],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}