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Article: Plugging into Seneca.(Editorials)(EWEB a logical customer for plant's electricity)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2009
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Byline: The Register-Guard
One of the several benefits of Seneca Sawmill Co.'s proposed wood-burning cogeneration plant is that it would produce power in an area that now imports most of its electricity. That benefit would be lost if, as some advocated at a meeting Tuesday, the Eugene Water & Electric Board declined the opportunity to sign an agreement to purchase the plant's power. Seneca would surely find eager customers elsewhere, and EWEB would continue its reliance on electricity from distant sources.
The utility board, however, did the sensible thing, voting 4-1 to give EWEB General Manager Randy Berggren the green light to negotiate a power ...