Energy Trust helps customers benefit from low-cost energy and homegrown, renewable power. Along the way, the benefits multiply to include bill savings, job creation and business investment and development.

Since 2002, we have:

• Saved and generated 728 average megawatts of electricity and 52 million annual therms of natural gas—enough energy to power Multnomah and Washington counties and heat Deschutes County homes

• Saved enough energy equal to the output of a power plant and reduced reliance on fossil fuels

• Invested $1.5 billion to save customers more than $6.9 billion on their energy bills

• Added $5.7 billion to the local economy, including $1.7 billion in wages, $312 million in small business income and employment equal to 4,700 full-time jobs lasting a decade

• Cut carbon emissions by nearly 20 million tons, equal to removing 3.5 million cars from the roads for a year (See our methodology)

Efficiency remains the least expensive energy resource Oregonians can buy. This affordable energy supply helps utilities avoid investment in new and more expensive energy resources.

2002-2016

Performance based

Setting a high bar for performance is a key driver for our programs. Over time, we have accelerated energy savings to meet increasingly aggressive goals while keeping internal costs low.

We consistently meet or exceed our performance measures for electric and natural gas energy savings, renewable resource development, financial integrity, program delivery efficiency, customer satisfaction, and benefit and cost ratios. In annual budgets, we set annual efficiency goals for each program, sector and utility and are accountable to each utility for meeting these goals.