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EPA names 2008 Green Power award winners
By Tom Kessler
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 Chanmipions were among the winners cited in the Environmenal 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.
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EPA Green Power winner profile: Dr. Jan Hamrin
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Green Power Pioneer Award
Over the past 30 years, Dr. Jan Hamrin has created a legacy of environmental and economic success. As founder of the nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions, Jan created the nationally known Green-e brand and certification programs for renewable energy, which provide consumer protection in evolving markets. The Green-e logo has become a premium mark of distinction among both buyers and sellers of renewable energy products because it builds upon a stringent set of standards to ensure that consumers who choose to pay a premium price for renewable energy are, in fact, getting a premium product.
Jan managed solar programs for the California Energy Commission in the late 1970s and later founded and led the Independent Energy Producers Association, pulling together renewable power and clean energy interests to affect policy and establish markets for non-utility power in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Tags: · Center for Resource Solutions, Dr. Jan Hamrin, EPA
EPA Green Power winner profile: Green Mountain Energy Company
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Green Power Pilot Award — Honorable Mention
After conducting primary research in both the Rio Grande Valley and Houston, Texas markets, Green Mountain Energy Company found that the Hispanic population in these areas was highly interested in clean electricity and Green Mountain’s product offering. In early April 2008, Green Mountain launched its first integrated advertising and PR campaign targeting the Hispanic market in Texas. A media plan that included a combination of both English and Spanish language advertising, and a comprehensive media mix of TV, radio, print and outdoor, was designed for maximum effectiveness.
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EPA Green Power winner profile: Energy Action Coalition
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Green Power Pilot Award
The 46 environmental and social justice organizations, over 700 local groups, and tens of thousands of young people that make up the Energy Action Coalition are leading the way in addressing climate change by creating vast networks of power, winning clean energy victories on campuses and in communities, and building a cleaner, healthier, and just future. In May 2005, Energy Action Coalition launched the Campus Climate Challenge to unite students and young people in achieving 100% clean energy policies on 1,000 campuses over three years. To date, they have reached over 2 million young people through the challenge and over 760 campuses have joined the campaign.
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Tags: · Energy Action Coalition, EPA
EPA Green Power winner profile: Portland General Electric
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Green Power Beacon Award
In an innovative effort to bring business and residential renewable power customers together, Portland General Electric (PGE) created an online “green community” through the launch of their GreenPowerOregon.com web site.
The site is available to all PGE customers, with special content available only to renewable power customers. Several hundred customers are registered on the site, with more than 10,000 unique visitors to the site in the first couple of months after launch.
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Tags: · EPA, Portland General Electric
EPA Green Power winner profile: Sterling Planet
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Large Commercial/Institutional Green Power Program or Supplier of the Year
Sterling Planet delivers renewable energy, energy-efficiency products and carbon solutions to multinational businesses, universities, government agencies, utilities and individual consumers. Since 2000, Sterling Planet has offered certified RECs from wind, solar and a broad range of other renewable energy resources.
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EPA Green Power winner profile: 3Degrees
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Large Commercial/Institutional Green Power Program or Supplier of the Year
3Degrees continues to support a large, high-quality portfolio of renewable energy projects in 23 states from wind, solar, landfill gas and biomass sources, including many with ten-year Renewable Energy Certificate offtake arrangements. 3Degrees serves more than 200 U.S. and international business customers, as well as five utilities in three states (California, Oregon and Missouri) for its highly successful turnkey utility green pricing partnerships. The company’s annual sales recently reached 4 billion kilowatt hours, and it serves 6 of the top 15 corporate purchases nationally.
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EPA Green Power winner profile: City of Palo Alto Utilities
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Small Residential/Commercial Green Power Program or Supplier of the Year
PaloAltoGreen (PAG) draws renewable energy from 100 percent new, local and regional wind and solar resources, all from projects that have come on-line since 2005. Just five years since the program’s launch, total sales are 59 million kilowatt hours annually and the customer participation rate is 20.4 percent, the highest rate in the nation.
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Tags: · City of Palo Alto Utilities, EPA
EPA Green Power winner profile: AmerenUE
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
New Green Power Program or Company
AmerenUE’s Pure Power program is the largest green pricing program offered in the Midwest to date. The program utilizes resources from Bluegrass Ridge, a Missouri Wind Farm, and Noble Hill, a Missouri landfill gas project. The Pure Power program was launched in October 2007 with a special celebration featuring a 131-foot wind turbine blade, an appearance by St. Louis Mayor and several Pure Power “early adopters.”
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Tags: · AmerenUE, EPA
EPA Green Power winner profile: WhiteWave Foods Company
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Partner of the Year
This is the fifth year that EPA has recognized WhiteWave Foods Company with an EPA Green Power Leadership Award. The company has a rich history of supporting green power, beginning in 2003 with its first purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) for the Silk® Soymilk brand operations. In 2004, the company began buying RECs to cover the operations for the Horizon Organic® brand, and in 2006 for the electricity used at the company’s corporate headquarters. In 2008, WhiteWave added the International Delight® and Land O’Lakes® creamer brands by increasing the company’s overall purchase to more than 98 million kilowatt-hours annually.
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Tags: · EPA, WhiteWave Foods Company
EPA Green Power winner profile: University of Pennsylvania
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Partner of the Year
The University of Pennsylvania buys nearly 193 million kilowatt-hours of wind-generated renewable energy certificates (RECs), an amount equivalent to 46 percent of its total purchased electricity use. The purchase is large enough to have placed Penn on both EPA’s National Top 50 and Top 20 Colleges and Universities purchaser lists.
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EPA Green Power winner profile: Intel Corporation
From the Environmental Protection Agency
The 2008 Green Power Leadership Awards were presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference, held October 26-29 in Denver, Colorado.
Partner of the Year
Intel Corporation, a world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to advance how people work and live. Currently, Intel powers over 46 percent of its U.S. facilities through the purchase of more than 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours a year of renewable energy certificates (RECs) generated from wind, solar, geothermal and biomass sources. Intel’s purchase ranks among the largest in the Green Power Partnership, placing it on EPA’s National Top 50 and Fortune 500 purchaser lists.
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Tags: · EPA, Intel Corporation
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