News Brief

EPA Purchases Green Power

by Jessica Boehland

EPA’s facilities in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Source: EPA
In its largest green-power purchase ever, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to buy renewable energy certificates representing 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity for each of the next three years. The renewable credits, supporting a biomass plant in Port Wentworth, Georgia, will offset the fossil fuels burned to power EPA’s facilities in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Including the recent agreement, EPA meets more than 75% of its national electricity needs through renewable energy.

Published February 1, 2005

Boehland, J. (2005, February 1). EPA Purchases Green Power. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/epa-purchases-green-power

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