The Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) recently announced that a new civic center located in Hillsboro, OR, will be the first municipal headquarters building in the state to meet all of its energy needs with renewable resources.

According to BEF, the civic center will utilize a 3,150-watt, 18-panel roof top solar array and purchase the balance of its power from Portland General Electric's (PGE) Clean Wind program.

BEF noted that PGE paid the greater part of the solar array's cost.