Energy Conservation Resources
These links offer a variety of local and higher education tools and strategies for faculty, staff and students to pursue further energy savings.
- is a non-profit dedicated to helping customers reduce costs and realize benefits by saving energy and using renewable resources.
- is a program managed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Energy that promotes energy efficiency.
- empowers people with information, tools and resources to increase the capacity to address many home, environmental, health, comfort, and safety issues while conserving natural resources.
- (AASHE) empowers higher education faculty, administrators, staff and students to be effective change agents and drivers of sustainability innovation. They work with and for higher education to ensure that our world’s future leaders are motivated and equipped to solve sustainability challenges.
- AASHE’s is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance, from which PCC has received various awards and recognition. PCC currently has a silver rating of 63.48 received in 2021.
- has a wealth of resources for commercial and residential properties.
- Oregon’s Executive Order 17-20 Statewide Plug-Load Strategy mandates reduction in building plug loads (all devices that “plug into” a building’s electrical system).
- Examples of Oregon’s effort to address Heat Island Effect in the Portland Metro region: