{"id":227,"date":"2017-03-23T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-03-23T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:31:51","slug":"energy-trust-of-oregon-offers-incentives-for-energy-and-water-conserving-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/2017\/03\/23\/energy-trust-of-oregon-offers-incentives-for-energy-and-water-conserving-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Trust of Oregon Offers Incentives for Energy- and Water-Conserving Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a customer of Portland General Electric or Pacific Power, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energytrust.org\/programs\/agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Trust of Oregon<\/a> can help out with rebates and other financial incentives when you upgrade or make improvements to equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible items include installing a variable frequency drive on your pump or doing a green rewind on a motor that\u2019s gone kaput rather than replacing it. Upgrading light fixtures and lighting controls, such as replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs, will pay dollars per fixture when replaced. The list is long for irrigation-related improvements: from simple replacement of regulators, sprinklers, or gaskets to going to scientific irrigation scheduling, which uses soil moisture monitors, weather station data, and evapotranspiration rates to apply water only when it\u2019s really needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energytrust.org\/about\/explore-energy-trust\/mission-approach\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Trust of Oregon<\/a> is an independent, nonprofit organization whose funding comes from utility customers (that may include you!) via the public purpose charge on their monthly bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a customer of Portland General Electric or Pacific Power, Energy Trust of Oregon can help out with rebates and other financial incentives when you upgrade or make improvements to equipment. Eligible items include installing a variable frequency drive on your pump or doing a green rewind on a motor that\u2019s gone kaput rather&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/2017\/03\/23\/energy-trust-of-oregon-offers-incentives-for-energy-and-water-conserving-improvements\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1157532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waterenergy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/dairy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}