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Our longstanding agency-wide commitment to environmental stewardship has resulted today in NCPA’s owned generation portfolio being 94% carbon emission free. As public power systems, the long-standing interest of our member communities in clean generation resources has spurred us to become a leader in the renewable energy arena. Our geothermal facility at the Geysers, as well as our hydroelectric facilities in Calaveras County, reflect that commitment to clean and renewable generation. Although our hydroelectric facility, built in 1985, has been a higher-cost resource to our members in the financial sense, it has great value to our communities as a source of clean, non-emitting generation.
If all of NCPA’s members were combined into a single utility, that entity’s current level of eligible renewable resources would stand at 20 percent – 42 percent if large hydro were factored in. That means that close to half of the electricity that is used by customers in NCPA’s member communities comes from sources that emit no carbon.
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