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The EPA Green Power Partnership’s latest quarterly rankings of the top renewable energy buyers has few surprises but does underscore the idea that large, profitable corporations such as Intel and Walmart will always have the resources and numbers to stay atop the leader board, while setting a great clean energy example for everyone else.
Walmart's Renewable Energy Power Surge
Seeded on Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:39 AM EST
Article Source: triplepundit.com - By Bill DiBenedetto- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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EPA said the top 50 largest purchases “amount to more than 15 billion kilowatt-hours annually, which represents nearly 70 percent of the green power commitments made by all EPA Green Power Partners.”
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#1 - Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:40 AM ESTThe increase was due largely to the company’s commitment to onsite renewable generation using biogas, solar and wind power generation at its California and Texas facilities.
Now this is the bigger and more significant story to me. I know it is just my opinion, but this onsite generation is what will prove to the average person that solar and wind installations will pay off for them too. And this distributed generation is the main solution to our energy issues.
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#2 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:11 PM ESTCertainly adds a lot to a generation point.. Each home and each business could generate electricity bypassing the traditional "Electric Company"...
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I see it as replacing the centralized power plant more than the utility company. That instead of a coal fired plant, it becomes 100,000 homes and another 50,000 commercial buildings powering the utility grid.
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