Vail Resorts Makes EPA’s Top 50 Green Power Purchasers List

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April 30 2009
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Vail Resorts, owner of Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Heavenly, which offsets all of its energy usage through the purchase of renewable energy credits, came in at number 25 on the EPA’s list of top green power producers.

According to the EPA, “the nation’s top 50 purchasers are buying more than 11 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) that would be produced from the electricity use of more than 1.1 million average American homes.” Vail purchases 151,311,000 kWh of wind energy from Renewable Choice Energy.

EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,000 partner organizations to voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, EPA Green Power Partners are buying more than 16 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to the CO2 emissions from electricity use of more than 1.5 million American homes.

Here’s the complete list:

1. Intel Corporation
2. PepsiCo
3. Kohl’s Department Stores
4. Dell Inc.
5. Whole Foods Market
6. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.
7. Johnson & Johnson
8. U.S. Air Force
9. Cisco Systems, Inc.
10. City of Houston, TX
11. City of Dallas, TX
12. (tie) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12. (tie) HSBC North America
14. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
15. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. / California and Texas Facilities
16. Kimberly-Clark Corporation
17. City of Chicago, IL
18. Starbucks
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. DuPont Company
21. Wells Fargo & Company
22. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
23. U.S. Department of Energy
24. PepsiAmericas, Inc.
25. Vail Resorts, Inc.
26. New York University
27. Staples
28. Bloomberg LP
29. The World Bank Group
30. (tie) Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.
30. (tie) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
32. Lowe’s
33. The Dannon Company, Inc.
34. State of Connecticut
35. WhiteWave Foods Company
36. Safeway Inc.
37. State of Wisconsin
38. Sprint Nextel
39. Pennsylvania State University
40. Sony DADC
41. Coldwater Creek Inc
42. The Tower Companies
43. U.S. General Services Administration / Region 2
44. Motorola, Inc.
45. ING
46. Advanced Micro Devices / Austin, TX Facilities
47. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
48. City of San Diego, CA
49. Oregon State University
50. California State University System