(BCN)– The Port of Oakland will proceed to buy renewable vitality from the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners determined final week. For the previous 10 years, the Port has been buying vitality that comes from the utility district’s wastewater remedy plant energy technology station. This newest resolution ensures that the Port will maintain utilizing this vitality for the following 2.5 years.
Jared Carpenter, Port of Oakland utilities administration supervisor, stated that this settlement will assist the Port exceed regulatory necessities for renewable sources of vitality sooner or later. “That is good for our neighborhood and continues our beneficial partnership with EBMUD,” Carpenter stated in a press release.
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In 2020, the Port’s whole energy provide combine included 70.4% from renewable sources, of which 20.3% got here from EBMUD, 12.8% got here from massive hydroelectric mills for a complete of 83.2% vitality delivered from non-carbon emitting sources.
“EBMUD’s wastewater remedy plant on the base of the Bay Bridge is greater than a remedy plant – it’s a inexperienced manufacturing unit, the place natural wastes, comparable to meals scraps, are transformed to renewable vitality,” acknowledged Doug Linney, president of EBMUD’s Board of Administrators.
“EBMUD is happy that its surplus renewable electrical energy will proceed for use regionally to profit the better Oakland neighborhood.”
