July 2000 issue

Special Green Power Issue

This issue from July 2000 was posted to our website in October 2001 due to popular request and recent interest in green power solutions.

Northwesterners are asking for planet-friendly power

Renewable resources: An investment that helps people and the environment

Customer's renewable resources complement island utility's power

Green power: Q & A

What are the states doing to promote renewable energy sources?
 

For more green power information:

Bonneville Power Administration sells about half the electricity used in the Northwest and has extensive public benefit programs including ones promoting conservation and renewable resources.

Renewable Northwest Project/Go Green was formed by renewable energy developers, environmental groups and others to promote policies that support the development and marketing of new renewable resources in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Its marketing campaign, Go Green, is encouraging businesses throughout the Northwest to buy green power to meet their electricity needs.

Bonneville Environmental Foundation was formed as a non-profit to collect a portion of revenues utilities obtain from their green power sales, as well as donations from other sources, and reinvest these to help develop new renewable resources and restore habitat.

For the Sake of Salmon is a salmon advocacy group that promotes habitat restoration for salmon recovery. The group is working with Northwest utilities to market "salmon-friendly power" - electricity from projects that have been certified as low impact by the Low Impact Hydropower Institute.

Center for Resource Solutions - Low Impact Hydropower Institute Green E Program. The Center for Resource Solutions and its sister organizations, the Low Impact Hydropower Institute and the Green E Program, are working at the national level to develop consistent criteria for evaluating renewable resources and utility green power marketing programs. The Low Impact Hydropower Institute has taken over the project screening work begun by American Rivers, a national environmental organization. Green E is a product certifying program that enables utilities to market their renewable resource packages as environmentally superior.

Northwest Energy Coalition is an alliance of more than 85 environmental, civic and human service organizations, progressive utilities and businesses from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and British Columbia. It promotes energy conservation and renewable energy resources, consumer and low-income protection and fish and wildlife restoration on the Columbia and Snake Rivers.