Contact: Bonnie Smith, 215-814-5543, smith.bonnie@epa.gov
EPA’s Green Power Partnerships Announces Renewable Energy Leaders in Western Pa and Baltimore
EPA’s Green Power Partnership recognizes leaders for their efforts to fight climate change and reduce conventional electricity use through the purchase of green power - - solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass, and low-impact hydro.
Both Foulger-Pratt Management and the Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium have made sizeable purchases of renewable energy.
In 2009, Foulger-Pratt Management purchased more than 34 million kilowatt-hours of wind-derived renewable energy certificates to power 74 percent of its facilities.
During 2009, Western Pennsylvania Energy Consortium plans to increase its use of green power to 15 percent/annual electricity needs to assist the consortium reach its goal of reducing its 2003 greenhouse gas emissions level by 20 percent by 2023. For more information, go to www.epa.gov/greenpower/awards.
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