Solar Power on the Kitsap Peninsula?
EPA to Use Only "Green" Power at Manchester Lab;
Solar-Powered Espresso to Fuel Wednesday News Conference
Port Orchard, WA — May 9, 2000 — The Environmental Protection Agency is going green.
On Wednesday, with a pull of the steam lever on an espresso machine, EPA will mark a "first" for a major Northwest federal facility: its laboratory at Manchester will be fully supplied with "green" power.**
Last summer the EPA installed an array of solar photovoltaic panels that will supply the lab with a small percentage of its electricity needs. Tomorrow EPA will announce that the balance of the electricity used by the lab will be "green" — generated at wind farms throughout the region and deemed environmentally friendly by the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, an independent non-profit foundation that generates revenues from sales of environmentally-preferred, or "green" power, to utilities and end use customers throughout the four Northwest states.
WHEN:
11:30 AM - NOON — Wednesday, May 10
WHERE:
EPA Manchester Laboratory at Port Orchard
WHO:
Romy Diaz, EPA Assistant Administrator
Anita Frankel, Regional Director for EPA Office for Innovation
Angus Duncan, Bonneville Environmental Foundation
Mike Nelson, Washington State University Energy Extension Office
**Electrons can't be tracked from generation to consumption so EPA's electricity purchase will pay for the costs of generating the lab's load at regional windfarms.
EPA Contacts:
Bill Dunbar (206) 553-1203
Carolyn Gangmark (206) 553-4072
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