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Geothermal Energy Helps County Reduce Greenhouse Emissions (Sonoma Index-Tribune)

The Sonoma County Center for Climate Protection, an emissions monitoring agency set up in 2008, last week issued a Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report for 2014 which said that compared to 2007, the county reduced its emissions by 14 percent, from 4.2 million tons to 3.6 million tons.

So where does the county find the greenhouse gas savings? Beyond cutting back on cars, community members have helped the air quality situation by using an alternative power source to power their homes.

In 2013, the city of Sonoma was among four others in the county to partner with Sonoma Clean Power. By December 2014, other cities had all followed suit. Sonoma Clean Power uses geothermal, solar, wind and hydro-power to compliment its own fossil fuel power generators, purchasing a mix of 33 percent renewable and 64 percent non-renewable for its standard program, or 100 percent geothermal power from The Geysers with its EverGreen program.

The Sonoma Clean Power website advertises its power is 30 percent below PG&E in terms of greenhouse emissions and offers power at competitive prices, generally slightly underneath PG&E.

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