October 29th, 2008
By Tom Kessler
Green Right Now
The Philadelphia Phillies are still trying to close out the World Series, but the team has already been declared winners off the field. The National League Champions were among the winners cited in the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards. The announcement was made at the the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference in Denver, Colo.
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 environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. The EPA says the program has hundreds of partner organizations buying billions of kilowatt-hours of green power annually.
According to the EPA, the Philadelphia Phillies are the first Major League Baseball team to join the Green Power Partnership. The baseball club buys 20 million kilowatt-hours annually from wind and biomass resources, enough to power 100 percent of the annual electricity use for Citizens Bank Park.
Here is the complete list of the 2008 EPA Green Power Purchaser Award winners:
On-Site Generation
Green Power Purchasing
- City of Houston, Texas
- The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
- ING
- Merritt 7 Venture, LLC
- Oregon State University
- PepsiCo, Inc.
- The Philadelphia Phillies
- Powdr Resorts
- U.S. Air Force
Green Power Partner of the Year
- Bellingham, Washington Community
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Intel Corporation
- University of Pennsylvania
- WhiteWave Foods Company
DOE Green Power Supplier Awards
New Green Power Program or Company
Small Residential/Commercial Green Power Program or Supplier of the Year
Large Commercial/Institutional Green Power Program or Supplier of the Year
CRS Market Development Awards
Green Power Beacon Award
Green Power Pilot Award
Green Power Pioneer
Related link:
- The Green Power Network – U.S. government web site provides green power market information
