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Canvas Dreams honored by PGE for our Clean Wind Participation
Posted by Canvas Dreams Staff on 09/17/2008
Canvas Dreams offsets 100% of its electrical use by purchasing new, renewable wind energy from PGE, the local power utility. When we joined PGE's Clean Wind program last year, we did so because it was the closest we could get to having a wind farm directly plugged into our hosting facility.
On June 19, 2008, we were delighted to become offical Bronze-level members of PGE's Clean Wind program, and are now a featured business in their online resource, www.GreenPowerOregon.com.
We also received an official certificate in recognition of our participation.
A little background on our participation in the Clean Wind Program:
As a Pacific Northwest web hosting provider, we at Canvas Dreams want to limit our impact on the environment. The major resource we use in the operation of our business is electricity. In addition to our servers and network equipment, power is used by the cooling, security, and fire suppression systems at our data facility.
Canvas Dreams utilizes energy-efficient servers and employs conservational technology where possible. Our newest line of greener dedicated servers use ultra-efficient CPUs created through a lead- and halogen-free manufacturing process, generate little heat, and draw considerably less power than do our enterprise servers. Still, for every Watt of power used by our hosting infrastructure, another Watt is used to cool the heat generated by our systems.
From an energy usage standpoint, web hosting is a costly business, and as such, its impact higher on the environment as compared to other industries. For this reason and many others, Canvas Dreams joined Portland General Electric's Clean Wind energy program.
Clean Wind enables us to purchase renewable wind power generated at wind farms in the Pacific Northwest, including the Klondike energy facility and PGE's new Biglow Canyon wind farm project. The new power is fed onto the grid to offset our consumption of electricity from non-renewable sources. Unlike some carbon offset programs, PGE's program enables us to purchase new electricity from local wind sources to directly benefit the Pacific Northwest environment and economy.
As a business member of Clean Wind, we have chosen to offset 100% of our web hosting infrastructure with clean wind power. Not only is it one way for us to give back to Northwest businesses who have supported us, it is also one small step to helping the environment that has given us a home.
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