Refrigerator campaign helps utility meet renewables mark
Under the gun to become more green, Sierra Pacific Power is developing geothermal, solar
and wind-driven facilities to generate power.
It’s collecting old refrigerators, too.
The Reno-based utility said last week it’s once again paying customers $30 each for old refrigerators that are turned in for recycling.
The campaign, now in its sixth year, is operating with a budget that’s more than doubled from last year, when about $38,000 was paid to customers who recycled nearly 1,300 old 
refrigerators and freezers. The effort counts toward a state mandate that requires that Sierra Pacific generate at least 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2015, said John Hargrove, who manages the refrigerator program for Sierra Pacific. Read full story:
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