PGE’s Clean Wind program is for customers who want to purchase small units of renewable energy at a fixed price.

With Clean Wind, you help build new renewable resources right here in Oregon. It’s easy, and an economical way to help support northwest wind farms.

Under this option, your actual energy use is billed at the Basic Service rate. You pay an extra fixed $3.50 monthly charge on your bill for a unit of renewable wind power. One unit purchased is equivalent to 200 kilowatt hours (kWh) of new wind generation. You can purchase as many units as you want.

• Your electricity price equals your actual usage billed at the Basic Service rate plus an additional $3.50 per unit of Clean Wind.
  
  
• These charges do not reflect your total PGE bill, which includes other charges billed to all customers such as your current energy rate, basic charge, distribution and supplemental adjustments.
  
  
• For a customer using 910 kWh per month, one unit represents about 20 percent of your usage coming from renewable energy.
  
  
• Prices cannot be changed without OPUC approval.
  

To choose Clean Wind, fill out our online renewable power enrollment form. More information about all PGE’s renewable power programs is available at GreenPowerOregon.

Supply mix
PGE has bought or plans to buy power or unique claims on the electricity produced from these types of power plants. The portion supplied by PGE is based on recent utility production and purchases. (May not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.)

The table below shows the sources of all the power sent to a typical 1,000 kWh per month Clean Wind customer. The 200 kWh Clean Wind “unit” is about 20 percent of the total power delivered.

Clean Wind assumes one unit (200 kWh) of wind is purchased by a consumer using an average of 1,000 kWh per month. Clean Wind assumes one unit (200 kWh) of wind is added to the fuel mix, reducing the environmental impact by 20 percent for a consumer using 1,000 kWh per month.

Nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide are air pollutants that affect human health, plants, fish and wildlife. Nitrogen oxides contribute to smog. Coal is the main source of these pollutants from power generation. Natural gas plants produce nitrogen oxides.

Nuclear fuel wastes contain the most radioactive and long-lived waste formed during operation of nuclear power plants. These wastes are stored at nuclear power reactor sites. The United States has no permanent disposal site for these wastes.

Some hydropower dams contribute to the decline of salmon and other fish and wildlife populations.

*Source: Oregon Office of Energy, 2005 data.

Where does the power come from?
For 2006, PGE purchased 100 percent new wind power from the Pacific Northwest.

For 2005, all of PGE’s Clean Wind purchases consisted of 100 percent new wind power (“new” is defined as created by a generation facility that first started operating after July 23, 1999, per Oregon Senate Bill 1149).

The 2005 power purchases from Clean Wind are broken out as follows:

• 42.2 percent of the certificates were supplied by Stateline Wind Energy Center located along the Oregon-Washington border. Stateline’s initial date of operation was Dec. 14, 2001.
  
  
• 37 percent of the certificates were supplied by Seawest Energy, located in Condon, Ore. Condon’s initial date of operation was Nov. 16, 2001.
  
  
• 20.8 percent of the certificates were supplied by Northwestern Wind Power LLC — Klondike Wind Farm. The 24-MW Klondike Wind Power Plant near Klondike, Ore., came online in December 2001.