EWEB’s business energy management programs produced a record-breaking year in 2001, totaling nearly 20 million kilowatt-hours of energy savings—the most ever for any single year in EWEB’s 23 year history of conservation activity. Combined with EWEB’s residential energy management programs, the total conservation acquired from all participating customers was in excess of 30 million kilowatt-hours.

In total, EWEB’s conservation investment over the last two decades now exceeds the annual output of EWEB’s largest hydroelectric plant, the Carmen-Smith/Trail Bridge Project on the McKenzie River.

To put the utility’s conservation programs into another perspective, it would have cost approximately $50 million if EWEB had to make wholesale spot market purchases for the equivalent amount of our 23 year conservation investment during the highest five months of last year’s energy crisis.