Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

Ashland GHG Inventory, 2011 - 2015 6 2. COMMUNITY INVENTORY The City of Ashland, Oregon has a population of 22,700 and is located at the southern tip of the Rogue Valley, approximately 15 miles north of the Oregon-California border. Nestled in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains, Ashland has a nationally recognized and Tony Award-winning repertory theater company, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), and the nearby Mount Ashland Ski Area provide abundant outdoor recreational opportunities in the region. Ashland is also home to Southern Oregon University (SOU), with close to 6,000 students. Figure 2 provides a summary of Ashland’s 2015 emissions, by source and sector. As can be seen the largest sources of emissions include Residential and Commercial Energy use by buildings and other facilities (24% of total); Residential On-Road Transport (17%); and emissions from the production of Residential Goods (22%) and Food (15%). Upstream Energy Production represents the “upstream” energy use and emissions associated with the extraction and production of final fuel products that used in Ashland’s buildings and vehicles. Figure 2: Summary of Ashland’s 2015 Community GHG Emissions. Ashland’s community greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory includes both “sector-based” and “consumption-based” emissions. Sector-based emissions include local emissions from building energy use in residential, commercial and industrial sectors, transportation energy use, methane emissions from solid waste disposal, wastewater treatment, and fugitive leakage of refrigerants from cooling systems. Consumption-based emissions are generated outside the community in order to produce the goods and food consumed by Ashland residents. Together, they make up a community’s total emissions. The community has greater control over the Residen'al**Energy*13%*Commercial**Energy*11%*Industrial**Energy*1%*Residen'al**On:Road*Travel*17%*Commercial*and*Industrial*Freight*2%*Residen'al**Air*Travel*4%*Refrigerant**Leakage*2%*Solid*Waste*&*Wastewater*2%*Upstream**Energy**Produc'on*9%*Residen'al**Food*15%*Residen'al**Goods*22%*City*Government**Goods*and*Construc'on*2%*