Intel Becomes the Single - Largest Corporate Purchaser of Green Power in the United States

January 28, 2008 – Vol. 12 No. 45

Intel Becomes the Single - Largest Corporate Purchaser of Green Power in the United States.

The company has announced will purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates (RECs) as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment.

Intel’s REC purchase, which includes a portfolio of wind, solar, small hydro-electric and biomass sources, will be handled by Sterling Planet, a national supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon solutions. The purchase will be certified by the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions’ Green-e (tm) program which certifies and verifies green power products.

The purchase of RECs placed Intel at the top of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest Green Power Partners Top 25 list, and also at the No. 1 spot on EPA’s Fortune 500 Green Power Partners list.

The EPA estimates that Intel's REC purchase has the equivalent environmental impact of taking more than 185,000 passenger cars off the road each year, or avoiding the amount of electricity needed to power more than 130,000 average American homes annually.

In addition to promoting and funding ideas for greater energy efficiency in its facilities, Intel has consistently specified high-energy-efficiency equipment in its manufacturing facilities. Over the last 7 years, the company invested over $20 million in more than 250 energy conservation projects that saved in excess of 500 million kilowatt hours, enough energy to power about 50,000 U.S. homes.

The EPA’s Green Power Partnership program encourages and recognizes voluntary green power purchases as a way to reduce the impact of conventional electricity use. (1/28/08)

Links:

Intel
http://www.intel.com/pressroom

Intel and Energy Efficiency
http://www.intel.com/technology/energyefficient/
index.htm?iid=tech_home+body_ee

Intel and Climate Savers
http://www.intel.com/technology/eco-technology/
climatesavers.htm?iid=tech_ee+body_climatesavers

EPA’s Green Power Partnership
http://www.epa.gov/greenpower

Sterling Planet
http://www.sterlingplanet.com

Green-e
http://www.green-e.org

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