See our tour of PGE's Biglow Canyon Wind Farm, which
generates the renewable energy used by Canvas Dreams at our data facility.
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 conservation
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.
Renewable Energy from Local Wind Farms
Portland General Electric's Clean Wind Program enables us to purchase renewable wind power generated at wind farms in the Pacific Northwest, including PGE's Biglow Canyon wind farm project. The new power is fed onto the grid to offset our consumption of electricity from non-renewable sources. Unlike carbon offset programs, Clean Wind enables us to purchase new electricity from local wind sources to directly benefit the Pacific Northwest environment and economy. It's as close as we can get to plugging a wind farm directly into our data facility!
As a business member of Clean Wind, we offset 100% of our entire 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.
Our facility in Edinburgh (Canvas Dreams UK Ltd) also shares our sustainable objectives and is 100% powered by renewable wind energy through ScottishPower.
Learn More About Renewable Energy
We encourage you to learn more about how you can participate in renewable
programs for home and business. Contact your local power utility or read up
on the residential
renewable and commercial
renewable programs from Portland General Electric.
