The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized the University of Pennsylvania as one of the Top 25 Green Power Purchasers in the country.

EPA also recognized a special list of Green Power Partners who buy 100 percent of their electricity from green sources, including: Sun & Earth, Meyer Associates, Mantria Corporation, SCA Americas, The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd., The Barber Gale Group and Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future from Pennsylvania.

The National Top 25 list of Green Power Partners accounts for more than 6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year of green power purchasing, more than 60 percent of the total kWh in the Green Power Partnership; reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of more than 700,000 vehicles.

At #20, the University of Pennsylvania purchases over 112,000,000 kWh of electricity from green power sources every year.

EPA’s National Top 25 list ranks two of Pepsi's three independent bottlers at fourth and 13th. Kohl’s Department Stores increased its green power purchases to raise its ranking to eighth nationally, and Mohawk Fine Papers places on the list at 22nd.

The Pepsi bottler purchase demonstrates that a group of companies, tied together by a supply chain, can help protect the environment by buying green power. The total aggregate purchase of the three independent bottlers is nearly 629 million kWh per year.

Two of the three bottlers rank on EPA’s National Top 25 list, and all three found placement on EPA’s 100 percent Green Power Purchaser list, while one bottler also ranks among the more than 45 Fortune 500 corporations participating in EPA’s Fortune 500 challenge.

EPA's Green Power Partnership, launched in 2001 and works with more than 750 partner organizations that voluntarily buy green power as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use and to promote the development of new renewable generation resources nationwide.

Overall, EPA Green Power Partners are buying more than 10 billion kWh of green power annually, an increase of nearly 163 percent since January 2006. Green power is generated from eligible renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and biogas, as well as low-impact hydropower.

For more information, visit EPA’s Green Power Partnership webpage.

8/3/2007