Oregon

The Neighborhood Institute for Community Energy, Portland, OR, created a "think-and-do tank" institute that engaged students to help advance an innovative, community-owned, thermal district energy system utilizing low carbon energy supplies to provide space heating and cooling and domestic hot water to a mixed residential/commercial neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. In partnership with Portland State University, Midtech Energy and the Cascade Climate Network, the project identified and tackled obstacles to implementing a sustainable neighborhood energy system.