Power Hour | Creating an Energy Plan for Deschutes County

This will be a hybrid event. If you would like to attend the event virtually via a livestream, sign up for the here and you will get the livestream details the day before the event. 

This past year The Environmental Center, in collaboration with Sustainable Northwest, has hosted a Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) AmeriCorps member, Grace Andrews. Grace has been researching best practices for rural energy planning and leading the development of a toolkit to help communities create baseline energy inventories along with a group of OSU-Cascades interns. Come learn about her work and how it will shape conversations about the future of energy in Deschutes County. 

Meet our speaker

Grace Andrews, Energy Program Coordinator, The Environmental Center. Grace is an AmeriCorps member with Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE), a program that increases capacity for communities across Oregon to tackle community-based projects. She recently graduated from Colby College with a B.A. in Environmental Science, where she enjoyed working with the writing center and the outdoor orientation program for first year students. She is excited to be in Central Oregon and explore the beauty it has to offer. You can find her hiking, paddling a canoe or kayak, skiing downhill or XC, or on a rainy day, curled up with a cup of tea and a good book.

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