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Gresham mayor issues 'Green Power' challenge
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Posted 16 April 2008 in United States | Energy Source | News
Published 31 March 2008 by The Oregonian (original article)

The mayor and city council of Gresham, Oregon have issued a challenge to city residents: live up to your environmental beliefs and sign up for renewably-generated power. Gresham hopes to enroll 300 more households during the course of the Green Power Challenge. Similar challenges have been conducted in Beaverton and Salem, Oregon.

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Published 31 March 2008 by The Oregonian, http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/03/gresham_mayor_issues_green_pow.html

[This is an EXCERPT: read the whole article here, or read the City of Gresham's press release, linked below. -Ed.]

by Robin Franzen

"Will people in fiscally conservative Gresham pay more for electricity to help save the environment?

"City Hall hopes so.

"On Monday, Mayor Shane Bemis issued a 'Green Power' challenge: He's asking at least 300 local Portland General Electric customers to switch to one of PGE's renewable power options between April 1 and June 30."

"The city demonstrated its own commitment this year by increasing its green-power purchase from 852,000 kilowatt-hours of energy to 1.8 million kilowatts of wind power for city operations. That's almost 13 percent of Gresham's annual electricity usage for municipal facilities, including city hall, the operations shop, and fire stations."

"Gresham is the third Oregon city to issue such a challenge. Beaverton secured 590 new enrollments in 2007; and Salem signed up 3,000 new green-power customers in 2006, according to PGE."

Photo credits:
Sunflower: Diego Sevilla Ruiz
Power plug: Darren Hester

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