An Overview of Oregon Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency

Yao Yin

Background

• Sustainability is a buzz word.

• the Brundtland Commission (United Nations, 1987). This commission established the notion of sustainable development as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

(Governance for Sustainable Development, 2004)

• The institutional dimension is the key tool for the governance of sustainable development.

• To approach sustainability, renewable energy is a way.

• Since the fuel crisis in the 1970’s, the Pacific Northwest region has been investigating the use of renewable resources to produce energy.

Figure 2: U.S. Energy Sources Pie(USDA, 2005)

Primary Question

• What is the institutional framework for the most popular renewables in Oregon?

• We attempt to characterize the renewables and efficiency incentives available for Oregon.

Technologies (DSIRE)

Types

Eligible Sectors

Implementing Sectors

Conclusion

4 ‘Big’s about Oregon Renewable Incentives

Big Technology Solar

Big Incentive Type Utility Rebate

Big Eligible Sector Residential

Big Implementing Sector

Utility

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Report of the World Comission on Environment and Development. Publication A/RES/42/187.

• Governance for Sustainable Development. (2004) The Pignans Set of Indicators. Retrieved 7/3/07 from http://www.gosd.net/Pignans.pdf

• US Department of Agriculture. (2005). Biomass as Feedstocks for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply. DOE/GO-102005-2135, ORNL/TM-2005/66. Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.

• DSIRE. (2008). "Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency." from http://www.dsireusa.org/.