Rocky Mountain Power ranks second for green power
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    Rocky Mountain Power customers once again received high national rankings for their participation in the company's voluntary Blue Sky renewable energy program, surpassing customers of utilities throughout the country.

    The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory released its annual ranking of leading utility green power programs this week.

    PacifiCorp, which includes Rocky Mountain Power and Pacific Power electric, ranks second in the nation, for the third consecutive year, in the number of customers buying renewable power, and fourth for green power sales for 2006. The company has ranked in the top five in these categories for the past several years.

    The 2006 Top 10 utility "green pricing programs" is compiled by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the following categories:  total sales of renewable energy to program participants, total number of customer participants, customer participation rate and least expensive price premium charged for a green pricing service using new renewable resources.

PacifiCorp operates as Rocky Mountain Power in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho, and as Pacific Power in Oregon, Washington and California.

    "Renewable energy receives widespread support from individuals, businesses and local governments, and has a valuable role in diversifying our energy resource mix," said Richard Walje, Rocky Mountain Power president. "Blue Sky customers are joining us to increase the amount of renewable energy we put into our system, and it's having a significant impact in growing the green power market."

    Blue Sky is available to customers in all six states served by PacifiCorp. As of Dec. 31 the company had a total of 51,297 customers enrolled in the program. Currently, more than 23,500 Rocky Mountain Power customers participate in Blue Sky.

    More than 600 utilities in 34 states now offer these programs. More information can be found at www.nrel.gov.
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