City of Ashland – Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2011 – 2015) 29 APPENDIX A: ELECTRIC UTILITY – ELECTRICITY SUPPLY PORTFOLIO GHG INVENTORY In addition to the Ashland’s Community and City Government Operations GHG Inventories already presented, Good Company calculated another GHG inventory focused on emissions associated with Ashland Municipal Utility’s Electricity Supply Portfolio. The purpose of the Portfolio inventory is to examine the direct GHG emissions associated with Ashland’s Municipal Utility’s-owned electricity generation resources as well as the indirect emissions from power contracts with regional suppliers. Ashland has owned its Municipal Electric Utility since 1909. It is the second oldest Municipal Utility in Oregon. The majority (~98%) of the electricity resources that serve the City of Ashland are purchased from the Bonneville Power Administration, with the majority of the remaining (2%) generated by City-owned hydro facilities and a very small fraction of the City’s owned community solar project, Solar Pioneer II (a 63.5kW PV solar installation). All electricity is distributed through city-owned distribution lines to the City Utility’s customers. The Portfolio GHG Inventory is focused on the carbon intensity of the BPA power contracts and local hydro generation used to serve the Ashland community’s retail electric load. This inventory is not meant to consider operational emissions from the Utility’s services (e.g. Utility-owned building or fleet vehicles). Those emissions are included in the City Government Operational Inventory presented in Section 3 of this report. This inventory is meant to inform two primary audiences and perspectives. • Ashland Municipal Utility: The City’s Electric Utility staff may use this inventory to understand and share the direct and indirect emissions associated with its owned-generation and contracted power supply. This understanding is meant to inform potential supply-side GHG mitigation opportunities from a Utility power purchasing perspective, as well as a cost-of-carbon risk perspective related to future regulations, such as the Clean Power Plan, to the Utility and its customers. • Community-at-Large: The Community may use this inventory to better understand the GHG impacts of the resources currently used to supply community electricity demand and the interaction of those resources with larger regional electricity grid. As of this writing, Ashland is about to embark on developing its first Community Climate and Energy Action Plan. This process is generating interest from the public for information on the “carbon footprint” of their electricity use. The City of Ashland’s Electric Utility has both an opportunity and a responsibility to provide information on the impacts of electricity generation and use in order to enable its customers and the community-at-large to make informed decisions related to its use of electricity and the carbon consequences of using electricity.

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