In the winter, there’s no covered area in Waterfront Park. This would be a public space covered with photovoltaic panels. Plus we’re going to put in 10 public restrooms that we’ll maintain. And we’re going to light the park for the city. So we would be the first park to have its power produced on site. We could power all the lights: They only use one megawatt/year. We’ll produce three megawatts. The rest would go to the city’s 2020 plan to achieve 20 percent sustainable energy by 2020. The reason to have it in the heart of the city is that you don’t give up the 20 to 40 percent of the power transmission lost from remote generation. We want a two-year outreach effort. We want to talk to all elected officials and all neighbors before we even design it. It has to be a transparent process. This would be truly net zero, generating all its power, harvesting all its water, dealing with all its waste on site. If we meet the criteria and do our outreach, people will get behind it, because it would be the vision of what Portland is.
The project is not dead, rather it's stalled indefinitely. 
