SEVERAL REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS MAKE THE TOP 20 GREEN POWER PURCHASERS LIST

On Aug. 2, EPA announced the green power organizations that made the Top 20 list of green power purchasers.

Washington, D.C. clinched the No. 3 spot on EPA's Top 20 Local Government Green Power partnership purchasers list by switching from traditional sources of electricity generation to greener, cleaner renewable energy alternatives and purchasing enough green power annually to meet 50 percent of its electricity use. Local governments in region 3 that made the Top 20 list are: No. 3. District of Columbia , No. 5. Montgomery County Clean Energy Buyers Group , Rockville, Md., No. 8. Washington (DC) Suburban Sanitary Commission , No. 15. Montgomery County, PA , and No. 17. City of Philadelphia, PA . 

A growing number of colleges and universities in Region 3 are joining the Green Power Partnership and reducing their environmental footprint by supporting green power and increasing their purchases of renewable energy alternatives. Five colleges/universities in Region 3 made the Top 20 Colleges and Universities green power purchasers list. The Top 20 winners include:  No. 1. University of Pennsylvania , No. 2. Carnegie Mellon University , No. 3. Pennsylvania State University , No. 6. American University , and No. 20. Dickinson College , Carlisle, PA.

Five  K-12 schools in Region 3 made the Top 20 K-12 Green Power Partnership list of schools purchasing green energy. The combined green power purchasers among all K-12 school partners nationwide amounts to nearly 219 million kilowatt-hours of green power annually, or the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power more than 19,000 average American homes each year.  The five Top 20 winners in Region 3 include: No. 4. The Bullis School , D.C., No.11. Sidwell Friends School, D.C., No. 12. Norwood School , MD, No. 15. Maret School , D.C., and No. 20. Sheridan School , D.C. 

For more information on EPA’s Green Power Partnership, go to http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/