Oregon Department of Energy Mission: to ensure Oregon has an adequate supply of reliable and affordable energy and is safe from nuclear contamination, by helping Oregonians save energy, develop clean energy resources, promote renewable energy, and clean up nuclear waste.
Encouraging investments in conservation and renewable resources by offering tax credits, loans, rebates, and grants.
Providing information and assistance to households, businesses, schools, and government agencies on ways to save energy.
Demonstrating the workability of new energy- saving equipment, appliances, materials, manufacturing processes, and building practices.
Regulating the cleanup and transportation of radioactive wastes through the state.
Ensuring that the state is prepared to respond to accidents involving radioactive materials.
Advocating the cleanup of radioactive wastes at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Providing technical help and financial incentives to promote the use of renewable resources.
Siting prudent, safe and environmentally sound energy facilities.
ENERGY TRUST of OREGON MISSION: To change how Oregonians produce and use energy by investing in efficient technologies and renewable resources that save dollars and protect the environment.
Energy Trust of Oregon, Inc., began operation in March 2002, charged by the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) with investing in cost-effective energy conservation, helping to pay the above-market costs of renewable energy resources, and encouraging energy market transformation in Oregon.
Energy Trust funds come from a 1999 energy restructuring law, which required Oregon’s two largest investor-owned utilities to collect a three percent “public purposes charge” from their customers. The law also dedicated a separate portion of the public-purpose funding to energy conservation efforts in low-income housing energy assistance and K-12 schools.
Oregon Solutions grew out of the State of Oregon's Sustainability Act of 2001. First inside the executive branch of state government, then since January of 2002 as a program of the National Policy Consensus Center at Portland State University, Oregon Solutions has promoted a new style of community governance, one based on the principles of collaboration, integration, and sustainability.
In its short tenure, Oregon Solutions has fostered the development of 37 local projects around the state. Many of those projects are still underway, striving to achieve some combination of the state's Sustainable Community Objectives. Oregon Solutions is constantly assessing and initiating new projects. If you would like more information about one of our projects, or if you would like to propose a new project, please contact us.
Oregon Institute of Technology
The promise of sustainable power depends on our ability to harness renewable resources like wind, sunlight, biofuels, geothermal heat and rivers. The technology needed to harness these natural energy resources is continually improving, but the demand for workers who can lead us toward a sustainable energy future has already exceeded the supply.
Renewable energy is a burgeoning industry, especially in Oregon, where public and private programs and incentives fuel rapid growth. Oregon Institute of Technology has long been an advocate and user of sustainable energy in the region. The Oregon Tech campus in Klamath Falls is the only geothermally heated university campus in America, is home to the Geo-Heat Center, a national resource for geothermal development. OIT hosts the Oregon Renewable Energy Center (OREC), which conducts applied research on photovoltaic power systems, ground-source heating systems, fuel-cell systems, wind, biomass and integrated systems.
In 2005, Oregon Tech furthered its commitment to sustainable power by introducing the first Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy Systems in North America. Oregon Tech's renewable energy program establishes the engineering principles graduates will need to develop, promote, and implement sustainable energy technologies.
The Northwest Energy Education Institute (NEEI) offers both standard and custom learning opportunities throughout the Northwest for practicing professionals in the energy industry, including an energy management certification program. NEEI is located within the Science Department at Lane Community College.
Lake County Resource Initiative For a Healthy Economy and a Healthy Environment Mission: Promote and share an understanding of the inter-relationships between people and their environment. LCRI believes that by promoting healthy ecosystems, natural resource products can provide economic opportunities to local communities.
Develop opportunities for family-wage jobs through ecologically sound and sustainable practices. LCRI is active in educating the work force about economic opportunities that result from managing forests for ecological health, and helping local workers access federal contracting opportunities.
Encourage and facilitate new ideas and technologies. LCRI is currently involved in demonstrating new technologies such as small diameter shears, low psi harvesting equipment, and new opportuities such as small diameter wood products
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Design and manage resource-based projects and services in the communities of Lake County, Oregon. LCRI is working in several partnerships to provide local employment through benefits to the land--examples include biophysical monitoring, stream restoration, and exploring feasibility for a local co-generation facility.
The South Central Oregon Economic Development District formed in 1999, serves as the primary conduit for regional economic development resources for Klamath and Lake Counties Oregon. It provides the professional staff to provide support to economic development planning on a regional basis, and to the individual economic development efforts of Lake County and Klamath County. SCOEDD also manages and administers regional grant and loan programs.
Our vision for the future of Klamath and Lake Counties is a livable, unified community of modern pioneers that retain their core values while promoting a vibrant and diverse economy that allows for multi-generations to live and work.
The mission of the South Central Oregon Economic Development District (SCOEDD) is to build cooperation and collaboration between private, public and community entities that support planned growth that allows for:
· An economy with an expanded industrial base
· Leadership in alternative, renewable energy development
· An educated and well trained workforce
· Affordable housing opportunities
NWSEED Community Based Energy Solutions
The Northwest has abundant sources of clean, renewable energy and many opportunities for conservation and efficiency. Strong communities, taking collective action, can utilize these resources to respond effectively to global climate change, the depletion of fossil fuel reserves, and energy supply volatility. Working collaboratively with motivated communities, Northwest SEED researches and implements clean energy solutions that provide economic benefits while creating a healthy and secure energy future.
Founded in early 2001, Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development is a non-profit organization working throughout the Pacific Northwest.
OUR MISSION
Northwest SEED works to establish a clean, diverse, and affordable Northwest energy system based on efficient use of renewable resources, with maximum local control and ownership of energy issues.
OUR VISION
We envision a clean diverse, and affordable energy future for the Northwest by 2025. Through our efforts, successful, on-the-ground, community-based projects will stimulate local economic development, create jobs, and enhance security, creating widespread popular support for, and investment in, a sustainable energy system. In becoming self-reliant through energy efficiency and distributed local energy resources, the region will serve as a model for the nation and other countries.
North West Community Energy Renewable energy and energy efficiency investments carry remarkable benefits including lower environmental impact, greater price stability, and greater energy security, when compared to investments in fossil fuel generation. In addition to those substantial benefits common to all clean energy solutions, Community Energy has several distinct advantages including:
Greater economic benefit to local communities
Increased local awareness and involvement in clean energy
Communities are strengthened through their collaborative efforts
These are the driving forces behind most community based efforts, and the reason we decided to create this website.
Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association (OSEIA)
Promoting strength and quality in Oregon's solar industry
OSEIA's website provides information for the Northwest solar industry. Check out the latest on news, incentives, and solar programs.
OSEIA Site information:
Solar professionals contact info (Solar Yellow Pages (c))
Solar consumer information
Training for solar professionals
Northwest Solar Expo
Latest solar news
Oregon Solar Home Your resource for going solar in Oregon.
Find a solar professional, learn about solar workshops and events, become a member and more.
SMALL WIND in OREGON
This page provides information specific to public policies, incentive programs, wind resources, and organizational resources for installing and operating a small wind turbine in Oregon.
AWEA’s Web site also contains general information that is helpful regardless of which state you live in, including a Communications Toolbox for Wind Energy Advocates. You will find the information below more useful if you first read the general information available in the small turbine section
Renewable Energy Businesses in Oregon
Renewable Energy Businesses in Oregon by Product Type
Renewable Energy Businesses in Oregon by Business Type
Renewable Energy Businesses in Oregon by Business Name
The Home Power Magazine is the Hands-on Journal of Home-Made Power. If you are interested in: making your own electricity from renewable energy, alternative vehicles, or finding out the latest in related technologies and life-styles, then this publication can keep you up to date.
http://www.homepower.com/home/
Woodfirst helping create a sustainable society by improving the management of our urban and rural forests. Woodfirst is working to help people understand that when you use our onsite mobile milling service to turn logs to lumber, you enhance the lifecycle criteria established by the US Green Building Councils’ LEED program. Our Computerized Wood-mizer mobile sawmill and High Performance Wide Slab Hydraulic chainsaw milling services reduce the impact on the environment.
We've worked with different departments of government and nonprofit organizations and private individuals that prefer to use ecologically responsibly cut lumber for their community or personal projects. Call us! Let's talk about your logs to lumber project, whether your tree removal project is large or small.
~Oregon Rural Energy Portal~USDA
Increasingly energy efficiency and renewable energy are common features in rural business projects. Nearly all of USDA Rural Development's programs can support such activities, but several programs are particularly well-suited to rural energy projects.
Rural energy program overview
Energy projects funded recently in Oregon
Energy Efficiency
U.S. Department of Energy Renewable and alternative energy technologies are important to increasing America's energy security and addressing the long-term challenge of global climate change