Beginning in January 2007, the Green Power Partnership program will require partners to purchase 100 percent “new renewables” in meeting their minimum purchase requirements for membership. The previous threshold for the minimum green power purchase benchmark was 50 percent “new” renewables. New renewables are eligible renewable generating facilities placed in operation on or after January 1, 1997
“Voluntarily switching to renewable energy sources, EPA’s environmental partners are showing that it is easy and rewarding being green,” says EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson.
The more than 650 Green Power Partners are purchasing enough clean, renewable energy to power more than 400,000 American homes each year.
Green power is electricity generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact biomass, and low-impact hydro sources.
The Green Power Partnership is meant to encourage organizations to voluntarily purchase green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use. The Green Power Partnership is comprised of Fortune 500 companies, local, state, and federal governments, trade associations, and colleges and universities.
