Intel becomes largest purchaser of ‘Green Power’ in the U.S.
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jan 28, 2008 at 12:20pm
Intel plans to purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment, making Intel the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the U.S., according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It said it hoped the record-setting purchase would help stimulate the market for green power, which should lead to additional generating capacity and ultimately, lower costs.
The purchase placed Intel at the top of EPA’s latest “Green Power Partners Top 25” list, and also at the No. 1 spot on EPA’s “Fortune 500 Green Power Partners” list. It’s the only tech company on the list. The EPA’s Green Power Partnership program encourages and recognizes voluntary green power purchases as a way to reduce the impact of conventional electricity use.
Renewable energy certificates, or RECs, are the “currency” of the renewable energy market s. The EPA estimates that Intel’s REC purchase has the equivalent environmental impact of taking more than 185,000 passenger cars off the road each year, or avoiding the amount of electricity needed to power more than 130,000 average American homes annually.
Intel’s REC purchase, which includes a portfolio of wind, solar, small hydro-electric and biomass sources, will be handled by Sterling Planet, a national supplier of renewable energy, energy efficiency and low-carbon solutions. The purchase will be certified by the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions’ Green-e program which certifies and verifies green power products.
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