EPA Claims to be First 100-percent Green-powered Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has closed a deal administrators say will make it the first federal agency to purchase renewable energy, or "green power," equivalent to 100 percent of its annual electricity needs. The EPA's contract with 3 Phases Energy Services calls for the delivery of green-power to more than 190 EPA facilities nationwide.

Combined with earlier agreements, this contract will bring EPA's total green-power purchase to almost 300 million kWh per year, which is equivalent to 100 percent of the electricity EPA uses nationwide. That, says the EPA, is enough electricity to power 27,970 homes for a year, and offsets more than 600 million pounds of carbon dioxide — roughly the amount 54,000 cars emit during a year.

"For 35 years, EPA has been greening our nation's landscape. By committing to alternative, renewable power sources, the agency is meeting the president's call to green our nation's energy," said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson in a press release. "At EPA, we don't just talk the talk, we walk the walk."

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