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Energy Efficiency Goes Right to Your Bottom Line
Reducing energy consumption is an important step to control operating costs — and that’s good business. Energy Trust of Oregon can help.
If you’re an Oregon industrial customer of Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural or Cascade Natural Gas and you’re contributing to the Public Purpose Charge*, Energy Trust can help.
We offer technical assistance and cash incentives for industrial processes of all kinds — including large industrial, manufacturing, agriculture and water/wastewater treatment. For more information on Energy Trust services, click on the market sector that best describes your facility.
Small- to Mid-Size Manufacturing
- Includes fabricated metals, secondary wood products, food processing, chemical manufacturing, machine shops, non-metallic mineral products and others
- Typically consumes less than $25,000 per year in electric power expenses
- Uses standard equipment
- Major energy uses include: lighting, motors, compressed air, space heating, process steam, refrigeration
- Includes pulp and paper, high technology, wood products, food processing and others
- Typically consumes more than $25,000 per year in electric power expenses
- Uses custom production processes with some standard equipment
- Major energy uses: lighting, motors, compressed air, material conveyance, process heating/drying, refrigeration, process pumping
- Includes farms, dairies, nurseries, wineries and others
- Includes municipal and county owned and operated water and wastewater facilities
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