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March 7, 2007

Oregon governor's goal: 25% green power by 2025

  • The bill is the centerpiece of Gov. Kulongoski's push to place the state in the center of the new clean energy, low-carbon economy.
    • By AARON CLARK
    Associated Press Writer

    SALEM, Ore. — Oregonians could be drawing 25 percent of their electricity from windmills, solar panels, energy capturing wave buoys and other renewable energy sources by 2025, if a bill proposed by Gov. Ted Kulongoski passes in the state legislature.

    The law would make Oregon one of the leaders among two dozen states that currently have renewable portfolio standards — laws that require a portion of the state's electricity come from renewable sources — by giving it some of the most aggressive clean energy requirements in the country.


     
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