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, …read more

The US Environmental Protection Agency is fulfilling its commitment to 100% renewable energy with help from Green-e certified renewable energy certificate dealer Sterling Planet.
The agreement between the EPA and the REC (renewable energy certificate) dealer to supply renewable energy kilowatt hours will meet 100 percent of the government agency’s annual electricity needs at more than 190 EPA facilities across the nation.
The move to renewable energy keeps the EPA as an active partner in the agency’s own Green Power Partnership, a voluntary program that promotes renewable energy. It also places the EPA among the top ten largest U.S. renewable energy purchasers …read more