WRI and its Green Power Market Development Group received the 2004 National “Green Power Pilot Award” from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the Center for Resource Solutions.
Selected as the best of nearly 50 nominees, WRI and its Green Power Group were honored at the Ninth National Green Power Marketing Conference in October 2004. For the past four years, the National Green Power Pilot Award has been given to an individual or organization that has made significant, groundbreaking contributions to the development of markets for renewable energy in the United States.
Created by WRI in 2000, the Green Power Group is a unique commercial and industrial partnership dedicated to building corporate markets for renewable energy. Its members are Alcoa Inc., Cargill Dow LLC, Delphi Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, FedEx Kinko’s, General Motors, IBM, Interface, Johnson & Johnson, Pitney Bowes, and Staples. The collaboration seeks to develop 1,000 megawatts of new, cost-competitive green power in the United States by 2010.
To date, all 12 group members and WRI have completed green power projects and purchases totaling 174 megawatts, enough capacity to power more than 90,000 homes. These purchases have occurred at 330 facilities across 31 states. Members have become the nation’s largest corporate users of renewable energy certificates, energy from landfill gas, on-site
solar power, and hydrogen fuel cells. These members now lead the way in buying power from wind farms and on-site solar photovoltaic systems.
As a result of recent purchases, three corporate members of the group were also honored this year by US EPA and DOE. Staples was named Corporate Green Power Partner of the Year, while Johnson & Johnson and Interface both received Corporate Green Power Purchaser awards.
