EPA Recognizes Top 25 Green Power Purchasers

Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated its Top Green Power Purchasers list highlighting organizations committed to purchasing green power.

The National Top 25 list of Green Power Partners accounts for more than 6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year of green power purchasing, more than 60% of the total kWh in the Green Power Partnership; reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of more than 700,000 vehicles.

“America is shifting to a ‘green culture,’ with more and more businesses understanding that environmental responsibility is everyone’s responsibility,” said Marcus Peacock, EPA’s Deputy Administrator. “EPA commends the leading Green Power Partners for making a long-term commitment to protecting the environment.”

EPA’s Green Power Partnership launched in 2001 and works with more than 750 partner organizations that voluntarily buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use and to promote the development of new renewable generation resources nationwide.

Overall, EPA Green Power Partners are buying more than 10 billion kWh of green power annually, an increase of nearly 163 percent since January 2006. Green power is generated from eligible renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and biogas, as well as low-impact hydropower.

EPA updates its Top Partners lists quarterly. Below is the updated list of EPA’s National Top 25 list, listed in descending order of purchase size as of July 2007.

1. PepsiCo
2. Wells Fargo & Company
3. Whole Foods Market
4. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.
5. U.S. Air Force
6. Johnson & Johnson
7. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
8. Kohl’s Department Stores
9. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
10. Starbucks
11. DuPont Company
12. U.S. Department of Energy
13. PepsiAmericas, Inc.
14. Vail Resorts, Inc.
15. Cisco Systems, Inc.
16. HSBC North America
17. Staples
18. New York University
19. The World Bank Group
20. University of Pennsylvania
21. IBM Corporation
22. Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.
23. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
24. NatureWorks LLC
25. Sprint Nextel