$2 billion building plan challenges climate goals, but OPPD confident emissions will drop
Replacing coal generation with renewable resources like wind and solar has helped the Omaha Public Power District slash its climate-changing emissions over the last decade by more than 4 million tons.
Thats no small amount, says OPPD President and CEO Javier Fernandez the equivalent impact of taking every vehicle in OPPDs eastern Nebraska service area off the road.
Now Fernandez and other OPPD officials say they are confident the utility can continue on that more sustainable road, even as it faces fast-rising power demand from data centers and other big industrial power users.
While OPPDs $2 billion plan for meeting that demand calls for new generating plants, both renewable and not, they say 90% of the actual energy generated will come from the renewable resources.
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We own 15 shares of OPPD's community solar project. We have already recovered our investment on our bill.