Working to Transition to Electric Equipment

As you most likely know, a gas powered leaf blower ban will go into effect in the City of Portland starting January 1, 2026. Now this is just within the City of Portland, but if you have property in the city, you will be impacted.

It is hard to disagree that gas powered leaf blowers are noisy and emit carbon. However, they are one of the most efficient and effective tools used in landscape maintenance. This ban will lower landscape maintenance efficiency and raise costs. Not only are gas blowers less powerful, to operate throughout a typical day, the number or expensive batteries raise the capital cost to landscape maintenance operations 5-6 times as shown below.  

See this article about Oregon State University facilities who have experimented with battery blowers and found them to not be practical to use: (https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/campusdirections/2023/11/15/gas-vs-electric-leaf-blowers-which-option-is-more-sustainable/)

Pacific has evaluated the developing battery landscape equipment and has a goal of transitioning all hand held equipment to battery as cost effectively practical. For this coming year we have outfitted new trailers to hold our battery equipment and chargers for crews maintaining properties in the City of Portland.. We are working to learn how to best and most efficiently and cost effectively outfit our teams with battery equipment.  

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