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Swarthmore Among Top Five In EPA's Green Power Community Challenge At Mid-Point
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first Green Power Community Challenge has reached its mid-year point with 36 communities setting an example for other cities, towns, villages, and Native American tribes to use renewable energy to help protect people’s health and the environment.
At this point in the competition, the two category leaders are Washington, D.C. for its total green power usage and Brookeville, Md. for the percentage of its total electricity use that is green power.
Swathmore ranks second with 16.1 percent green power used. The other communities include: Brookeville, MD at number one, followed by Bellingham, WA, Rivers Falls, WS, and Corvallis, OR.
At the end of the year-long national challenge in September, EPA will recognize the community that uses the most green power and the one that achieves the highest green power percentage of total electricity use.
Green power communities are collectively purchasing nearly 2.6 billion kWh of green power annually. This is equivalent to the electricity use of more than 226,000 average American homes.
Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies, and produce significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information, visit EPA’s Green Power Community Challenge Rankings and the Green Power Communities webpages.
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3/21/2011 |
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