
Oregon
As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.
In 2019, 49% of Oregon’s electricity generation came from hydroelectric power.

The Columbia and Snake Rivers generate 40% of all U.S. hydropower.

Oregon is the second highest hydropower-producing state in the nation, behind only Washington.

Low-cost and carbon-free hydropower is attractive to industries, like data centers, that consume large amounts of electricity.
