Intel Tops EPAs Green Power Partnership
The EPA’s Green Power Partnership encourages businesses to seek out renewable energy sources, reduce the environmental impacts of electricity use and support the development of new renewable generation capacity nationwide. Intel Corporation is the national leader in this voluntary program with a purchase of 1.3 billion “green” kilowatt-hours per year, according to Sustainable Business.
These purchases surpassed the goals set by EPA’s Green Power Partnership and equal the avoided carbon dioxide emissions of more than 570 million gallons of gasoline each year or the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly 670,000 average American homes annually.
PepsiCo, the U.S. Air Force, Wells Fargo & Company and Whole Foods round out the top 5 EPA Green Power Partners with purchases in biogas, biomass, geothermal, solar and wind.
Among the renewable energy and REC suppliers chosen by the top 5 companies are Austin Energy, Community Energy, On-site Generation, PNM, Renewable Choice Energy, Sterling Planet, 3Degrees, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Bonneville Power Administration, Colorado Springs Utilities, Georgia Power, Minnkota Power Cooperative, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Rocky Mountain Generation Cooperative and TransAlta Energy Marketing.