Seaside OR
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Seaside is a city in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The name Seaside is derived from Seaside House, a historic summer resort built in the 1870s by railroad magnate Ben Holladay. The city's population was 6,457 at the 2010 census.
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Portland General Electric’s 400 MW Battery Energy Storage Project | |
| Portland General Electric (PGE) has launched the largest battery storage project in Oregon, adding 400 MW of non-emitting capacity across two locations to bolster clean energy reliability and support the state’s transition to renewable power. These battery storage facilities, located in Seaside and Troutdale, will provide enough energy to power approximately 260,000 homes for up to four hours during peak demand, directly supporting PGE’s carbon reduction goals. The Seaside facility, developed by Eolian, and the Troutdale facility, owned by NextEra Energy Resources, are anticipated to go online by 2025 and 2024, respectively. This project enhances grid flexibility and resilience, positioning PGE to integrate more renewable sources like wind and solar into its portfolio while reducing greenhouse gas emissions in alignment with Oregon's clean energy targets. | ||
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The Clatsop were a historic Native American tribe that had a village named Ne-co-tat (in their Chinook language) in this area. Indigenous peoples had long inhabited the coastal area.
About January 1, 1806, a group of men from the Lewis and Clark Expedition built a salt-making cairn at the site later developed as Seaside. The city was not incorporated until February 17, 1899, when coastal resort areas were being settled. It is about 79 miles (127 km) by car northwest of Portland, Oregon, a major population center.
In 1912, Alexandre Gilbert (1843–1932) was elected Mayor of Seaside. Gilbert was a French immigrant, a veteran of the Franco Prussian War (1870–1871). After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage (built in 1885). Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or "Prom," along the Pacific beach.
In 1892, he added to his beach cottage. Nearly 100 years later, what was known as the Gilbert House was operated commercially as the Gilbert Inn since the mid-1980s. Both it and Gilbert's eponymous "Gilbert Block" office building on Broadway still survive.
Gilbert died at home in Seaside and is interred in Ocean View Abbey Mausoleum in Warrenton.