Hillsboro Civic Center is the first city hall in Oregon to be powered by 100 percent renewable energy

Includes solar panels on the roof from PGE

Hillsboro’s Civic Center is the first municipal headquarters building in Oregon to acquire enough renewable electric power to meet all its needs.
The structure is capped by solar panels, developing electricity from the sun.  Portland General Electric helped donate the 3,300 watt solar array, and The City of Hillsboro purchases the balance of their power from PGE’s Clean Wind^SM program for large businesses and organizations.

“Hillsboro has demonstrated environmental leadership that goes above and beyond even the high standards we expect in Oregon,” said Thor Hinckley, PGE’s renewable power program manager. “This is a cornerstone of the Civic Center’s official designation as a sustainable building.” The complex has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certificate by the U.S. Green Building Council. The council makes the award only to those structures that meet the highest standards of low environmental impact and energy efficiency.

PGE covered most of the cost of the 3,300 watt solar array on the center’s roof, with additional support from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation.  The solar system has 18 panels, each six feet tall by 33 inches wide located on the roof of the center.

The PGE solar funding came from renewable power customers, who help build new sources of renewable energy just like this project.