The EPA says Intel has achieved the largest green power purchase to date in the partnership, the equivalent to avoiding (CO2) emissions from the electricity use of more than 218,000 average American homes.
Cisco Systems comes in at No 11 on the Green Power Partnership list, while Sony is at 27. Meanwhile, Motorola, Inc is at 30, while Dell Inc is at 35. Sprint Nextel comes in at 45 on the list.
The top 50 green energy purchasers:
- Intel Corporation
- Kohl’s Department Stores
- Whole Foods Market
- Starbucks
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- City of Houston, TX
- Johnson & Johnson
- Staples
- City of Dallas, TX
- HSBC North America
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. / California and Texas Facilities
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- District of Columbia
- U.S. Air Force
- TD Bank, N.A.
- BNY Mellon
- City of Chicago, IL
- University of Pennsylvania
- BD
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- State of Illinois
- Deutsche Bank
- Pearson, Inc.
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Sony Corporation of America
- Bloomberg LP
- Montgomery County Clean Energy Buyers Group
- Motorola, Inc.
- Best Buy
- Suffolk County, NY
- Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.
- The World Bank Group
- Dell Inc.
- Lowe’s
- Chicago Public Schools
- State of Connecticut
- Hilton Worldwide
- The Dannon Company, Inc.
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Safeway Inc.
- State of Wisconsin
- Harris Bank
- Sprint Nextel
- Carnegie Mellon University
- ING
- Drexel University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Port of Portland
Sony Corporation of America nearly doubled its green power purchase, according to the report. Collectively, the top 50 partner organisations are using more than 13.5bn kWh of green power annually, equivalent to the CO2 produced from the electricity use of more than 1.1m average American homes, says the EPA.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,300 partner organisations to voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use.
