Homegrown energy could fill state’s needs
Analysis by
DAVID STEIN MAN
Of the Emerald
Listening to Howard Richmond, it seems if
Oregon were to rely on its own renewable resources,
the state would be energy self-sufficient by the year
2000.
Richmond, a renewable resource engineer for
Oregon’s Department of Energy, is currently synthe
sizing task force reports from the state Alternative
Energy Development Commission. The AEDC, with
nine commission members and six 15-member task
forces, is studying the in-state potential for geother
mal, wind, solar and conservation, biomass, alcohol
fuels and hydroelectric power.
The 1979 Legislature created the AEDC to
measure how much and when renewable resources
will become available in Oregon, and relay the infor
mation to Gov. Vic Atiyeh and the 1981 Legislature.
The AEDC, which will play a major role in deter
mining the state's financial commitment to renewable
resources, has seen its task forces at work since
October. In the next two weeks, the task forces will
submit reports to the nine AEDC commissioners for
review.
Richmond, assigned to the AEDC as a technical
adviser, is combining the task force reports for an
overview of Oregon's renewable resource potential.
Then the people who really control the AEDC — the
nine commission members selected and approved by
Atiyeh — will incorporate Richmond's analysis into a
formal report that will go to the governor in September
and to the Legislature in 1981.
Richmond says, based on task-force figures, a
conservative estimate of the power available from
renewables is 1,500 megawatts. Conservation, an
equally important energy source, could provide an
additional 1,500 megawatts of power, he says.
Emerald graphic
The hydro task-force report shows how abundant
renewable resources are in the state. The total poten
tial power from small-scale dams alone could produce
the equivalent of five Trojan plants, says John Bartels,
a hydro task-force member. Although environmental
constraints would eventually make this an unrealistic
evaluation of hydropower, Richmond has considered
environmental impact in preparing his estimates
Despite Richmond's enthusiasm and assurance
that renewables could supply all of Oregon's energy
needs, the AEDC final report may not be encouraging
to those who favor their wide-scale implementation.
The bottom line on the AEDC's commitment to
renewable resources is best summed up by AEDC
commissioner Paul Lineau, director of the Geo-Heat
Center at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Lineau
says that while renewable resources are valuable, they
should be thought of "as a supplement to nuclear and
coal plants.”
The dangers of coal and nuclear plants are
reported in the media daily. But renewable resources
also present problems.
For instance, a geothermal plant in the wilderness
area near Mount Hood would mean at least a five-acre
drill site, miles of pipelines and the strong sulfur smell
that accompanies geothermal drilling. Environmen
talists have already objected to these problems.
On the coast and in the Columbia Gorge, wind
farms of 500 two-megawatt wind generators could
supply 10 percent of the state's energy needs but
could supply the power only about 30 percent of the
time; the wind doesn’t always blow.
And until the AEDC develops creative solutions to
overcome the technological, environmental and
jurisdictional problems that accompany the use of
renewable resources, the construction of a nuclear
plant at Pebble Springs or another coal-fired plant at
Boardman are real possibilities.
Richmond acknowledges that financial, environ
mental and land-use concerns make renewable re
source development a still-uncertain solution to
Oregon's energy needs, but task force members point
out the state is paying economically for its reliance on
outside energy sources:
• Oregon money leaves the state to pay coal-mining
taxes in Montana.
• Washington taxes its exported hydroelectric power
to Oregon.
• Counties and cities, in Washington and wherever
else coal plants operate, levy industry-base taxes that
help fund their own home-improvement projects,
leaving would-be Oregon projects unfinanced
• Pacific Power & Light recently paid $75 million to
improve the pollution equipment of its Wyoming coal
plant to meet that state's stringent pollution stan
dards, six times higher than federal requirements.
"Look at it this way," Richmond says. "By
developing renewable resources, you're keeping
more local dollars in the state.''
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