Clean WindSM customers fund solar panels on sustainable urban farmhouse
Panels generate as much electricity as building uses
The 16-acre Zenger Farm is an urban farm learning center, unique in the U.S., where the public can gain knowledge of environmental stewardship, earth-sensitive agriculture and sustainable economic development. The farm, on SE Foster Road in Portland, has a 6,600-watt array of solar panels covering the roof of the building’s wrap-around porch. The panels produce as much or more electricity than the home consumes (6,000 to 8,000 kilowatt hours per year), resulting in “zero net energy use.”
PGE Clean WindSM customers provided most of the funding for the $42,000 solar panel array, with additional funding from the Energy Trust of Oregon. The farm is owned by the City of Portland, Bureau of Environmental Services, and managed by the nonprofit Friends of Zenger Farm.
“Clean Wind customers can be proud that their support of renewable power is making a difference in projects such as this one in our state,” says Thor Hinckley, PGE renewable power program manager. For more information on the farm, visit zengerfarm.org.