, i S.EPA GREEN POWER PARTNERSHIP Top 20 Local Government Partner List (as of January 5,2011) The Top 20 Local Government list represents the largest purchasers among local government partners within the Green Power Partnership. The combined green power purchases of these organizations amounts to nearly 2.2 billion kilowatt-hours annually, which is equivalent to the electricity needed to power more than 190,000 average American homes annually. Annual Green Power GP % of Total Usage (kWh) Electricity Use* 1. City of Houston. TX 438,000,000 2. City of Dallas. TX 302,880,000 40% 3. District of Columbia 244,267,000 50% Green Power Providers (listed in descending Resources order by kWh supplied to Partner) 34% Wind Reliant Energy Wind GDF Suez Energy Resources NA Wind Washington Gas Energy Services0 4. City of Chicago. IL 215,000,000 20% Wind Renewable Choice Energyc 5. Montgomery County Clean Energy Buyers Group 134,599,000 6. Suffolk County. NY 117,000,000 25% Wind Renewable Choice Energyc 90% Solar, Wind 3Degrees° 7. Chicago Public Schools 107,709,620 8. City of Austin. TX 20% Solar Element Markets0, On-site Generation 74,142,994 17% Biogas, Wind 9. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Wind Austin Energyc 70,000,000 33% Constellation NewEnergy 10. City of San Diego. CA 69,043,000 27% Biogas, Small- hydro, Solar On-site Generation 11. Austin (TX) Independent School District 65,640,000 41% Biogas, Wind 12. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Austin Energyc 60,000,000 20% Wind Champion Energy Services 13. Forest County Potawatomi Community ------- &EPA GREEN POWER PARTNERSHIP Annual Green Power GP % of Total Green Power Providers (listed in descending Usage (kWh) Electricity Use* Resources order by kWh supplied to Partner) 54,677,205 42,250,000 42,027,100 100% 14. Marin Energy Authority 25% 15. Los Angeles World Airports 16. City of San Jose. CA 31,854,279 16% 17. Montgomery County. PA 29,391,000 100% 18. Nassau County. NY 29,121,457 15% 19. City of Santa Monica. CA 28,000,000 100% 20. City of Albuquerque. NM 27,846,568 25% Wind Invenergy Biogas, Biomass, SheN Energy North America Wind 25% Biomass, Small- hydro, Wind Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power Biogas Wind On-site Generation PECO/Community Energy0 Biogas On-site Generation Geothermal, Wind Commerce Energy Wind PNM ^Reflects the amount of green power as a percentage of total electricity use. Partners choosing to purchase green power in an amount exceeding 100 percent of their U.S. organization-wide electricity use are listed as such. °Indicates Provider is selling Partner a third-party certified green power product. For more information on third-party certification, visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/buygp/certified.htm. ------- |