EPA Names Top Green Power Purchasers
For stats on the country’s largest purchasers of clean energy, look no further than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest listing of Top Green Power Purchasers.
Once again, department store chain Kohl’s leads the Retail Top 20, with Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and Staples rounding out the top five spots. Perhaps not surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Energy leads the federal government in green power purchasing, with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. EPA not far behind.
Among higher education institutions, the University of Pennsylvania takes first place, getting 48 percent of its energy from solar and wind (including a percentage of on-site generation). And the City of Houston, TX, leads the Top 20 Local Government pack, with 35 percent of its energy coming from wind.
More on the lists, from the EPA’s announcement:
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,300 partner organizations to voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, EPA’s Green Power Partners are using more than 22 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to avoiding the CO2 emissions from the electricity use of more than 1.9 million average American homes.
Check out all the lists on the EPA website.
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