Western congratulates University of Utah’s green power leadership
The latest list of the Top 50 Green Power Partnership organizations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) includes Western customer, University of Utah (UU) at number 50. Recently featured in the Energy Services Bulletin, UU also ranks third in the Top Twenty Green Power Colleges and Universities.
The quarterly list recognizes partner organizations voluntarily using clean, renewable electricity from resources such as solar, wind, and low-impact hydropower. UU joins such companies as Intel Corporation, Kohl’s Department Stores and Microsoft Corporation in using more than 15 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. Combined, the Top 50 partners avoid carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity use of more than 1.3 million American homes each year.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,300 partner organizations, over half of which are small businesses and nonprofit organizations, to voluntarily use green power. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies, and produce significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Western applauds the University of Utah for its efforts to reduce carbon pollution and move toward a new era of clean energy.
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