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Kudos to:

  • Green Energy Resiliency Task Force (Members listed below)
  • City of Depoe Bay’s staff and EP Committee
  • Elected officials and community leaders
  • Representatives of our partnership companies
  • The many volunteers who helped organize and prepare, and worked at the event
  • The (80+) Depoe Bay residents who attended, (43) from LWC. The program included:

    • Information Sessions
    • Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration
    • Q & A and Networking Opportunities
    • Community Dinner
    • 1st Hydrogen fuel cell powered dance in Oregon – The Tsunami Zone Band

LWC Task Force Members

Joe Cannon – Director

Scott Whitmire – Deputy Director

Kathy Short – Mayor, City of Depoe Bay

Paul Banas – LWC Board Chair

Greg Steinke – LWC Board Member

Randy Kollars

Dave Maguire

Oncore Energy’s Marketing Brochure for its hydrogen fuel cell power generators

Video: How the Microgrid Works

9/19/24 – Award Notice

Congratulations to the members of the City of Depoe Bay’s Green Energy task force for receiving funding by ODOE for their green energy resilience proposal.

6/21/24 – Update to Application Status Joe Cannon received notification from ODEM that the grant application successfully completed the eligibility review and has entered the competitive review stage of the grant program.

LWC partnered with the City of Depoe Bay to develop

a grant application for the Oregon Department of

Energy’s Community Renewable Energy Program.

Grant Proposal submitted May 10, 2024

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Oregon HB 2021 ​created a $50 million fund at Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE)

to provide grants for planning and developing community renewable energy and energy resilience projects​.