New Ore. hospital powered by wind.(Providence Health System)(Brief article)
Waste News, June, 2006 by Geiselman, Bruce
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Providence Health System is opening the first hospital in the country powered entirely by renewable wind energy. Providence Newberg Medical Center, in Newberg, Ore., opens June 16, and is built according to the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards.
The facility has applied for gold certification, which would make it the country's first LEED gold-certified hospital. Providence has agreed to purchase 183,294 kilowatt-hours per month of renewable power from Portland General Electric's Clean Wind program. The wind energy purchase will offset the need for conventional power generation that would have released more than 3 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions into the...
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