USA Top 50 list of green power purchasing companies

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) works with a variety of leading organizations and has published a list of the annual green power purchases of leading organizations within the United States and across individual industry sectors.

For the second year in a row, Intel Corporation, the world's largest semiconductor company, is America's largest single purchaser of green power with purchasing more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours of green power per year, supplying 47 percent of the company's electricity use.

This has the equivalent impact of reducing the carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of nearly 130,000 average American homes.

PepsiCo made it number two on the Top 50 list. One of the world's largest food and beverage companies, PepsiCo purchases renewable energy certificates to match 100 percent of its electricity purchased in the United States, totaling more than one billion kilowatt-hours annually.

"With their commitment to use renewable energy, they are setting the standard for others and helping make renewable energy more affordable for all," said Deborah Jordan, the EPA's Air Division director for the Pacific Southwest Further information:

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Source: ENS-Newswire