Corporate Green Power | Green Energy News

December 5, 2004 – Vol.9 No.37

CORPORATE GREEN POWER.

Change is rarely easy. As difficult as it is for homeowners to switch to a source of electricity other than what comes from the local utility (most don’t), it’s equally difficult for corporations to switch to new power sources for their often extensive facilities.

Fortunately the Green Power Market Development Group, an offshoot of the World Resources Institute, is making progress in convincing corporate America to buy more green energy for its facilities.

The Green Power Group is nearly a fifth of the way to its goal of one-thousand megawatts by 2010 of purchased renewable energy with the announcement of an additional 62 megawatts of green power purchases by its members. The Group now has 174 megawatts in the growing till.

The 62 megawatts of green power purchases - enough for 46,000 homes - included 39 megawatts in renewable energy certificates which supported 21 megawatts of biomass generation and 18-megawatts of wind energy.

Further, 21 megawatts of electricity from landfill gas operations was purchased and 2 megawatts of wind and solar energy was purchased including two 280-kilowatt solar systems installed on-site at member company Staples.

Other purchasers were Alcoa, Delphi, FedEx Kinko’s, Interface, Johnson & Johnson, Pitney Bowes and DuPont. Visit the Green Power Market Development Group at http://www.wri.org/ .