Business Leader Success Stories
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- Oregon Iron Works going greener - and hiring
- Amid a general decline of manufacturing and the wreckage of the economic downturn, the company, once a traditional welding and fabrication shop, is beating the odds and emerging as a national leader in green technologies.
- Major Oregon utilities ahead of green energy goals
- Major Oregon utilities are far ahead of a 2011 deadline to meet the state’s mandated renewable energy goals. In 2007, state legislators passed a renewable energy mandate that 25 percent of Oregon’s energy had to come from wind, solar, geothermal, wave and other renewable sources by 2025. The three largest utilities — Portland General Electric, PacifiCorp and Eugene Water and Electric Board — must meet a 5 percent goal by 2011. They are already there.
