Top Ten List Of Local Government Green Power Partners
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first national Top 10 Local Government Partners list highlighting the largest renewable energy purchases made by municipal and local government entities currently in the Green Power Partnership. The Top 10 list reflects Partner purchase information through June 26, 2006.
Topping the list is the City of San Diego, California, followed in second place by the Austin Independent School District in Texas.
Rounding out the top six local government purchasers of green power are Montgomery County Wind Buyers Group in Maryland, East Bay Municipal Utility Districts Main WWT Plant in California, the Round Rock Independent School District in Texas, and the City of Portland, Oregon.
Combined, the green power purchases of these Top 10 Local Government Partners amounts to over 283 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. This is enough renewable energy to power 26,000 average U.S. homes per year or is equivalent to removing the emissions of nearly 35,000 cars annually.
The Top 10 Local Government Green Power Partners, listed in descending order of purchase size, are:
1. City of San Diego (Calif.) 65,400,000 kWh
2. Austin Independent School District (Texas) 48,827,000 kWh
3. Montgomery County Wind Buyers Group (Md.) 40,845,139 kWh
4. New York State Municipal Wind Buyers Group 31,584,167 kWh
5. East Bay Municipal Utility District / Main WWT Plant (Calif.) 26,000,000 kWh
6. Round Rock Independent School District (Texas) 18,000,000 kWh
7. City of Portland (Ore.) 17,602,000 kWh
8. City of Boston (Mass.) 17,300,000 kWh 9. Rochester City School District (NY) 8,920,000 kWh
10. Inland Empire Utilities Agency (Calif.) 8,643,000 kWh
EPA’s Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program helping to increase the use of green power among leading U.S. organizations. The program encourages organizations to purchase green power as a way to reduce the risk of climate change and the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use.
Currently, the Green Power Partnership has more than 600 Partners voluntarily purchasing over 5.3 billion kWh of green power. Partners include Fortune 500 companies, local, state, and federal governments, trade associations, as well as colleges and universities.
Provided by the Environmental News Service.
