Pepsi remains at top of EPA green power buyers list

August 31, 2007—The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently updated its Top Green Power Purchasers list highlighting organizations committed to purchasing green power. The National Top 25 list of Green Power Partners (GPP) accounts for more than 6 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year of green power purchasing, more than 60 percent of the total kWh in the Green Power Partnership; reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of more than 700,000 vehicles, says EPA.

PepsiCo maintains its top spot on the list of green power buyers, but it has been joined on the list by its two largest manufacturing and bottling companies. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. and PepsiAmericas, Inc. have both signed on to offset 100% of their electricity use with renewable energy credits from Sterling Planet. That places the two companies in the fourth and thirteenth spots, respectively. Together, the three companies are buying about 1.72 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy credits each year.

Mohawk Fine Papers also joined the list at position number 22 by offsetting more than 100% of its electricity use with wind power.

Below is the updated list of EPA’s National Top 25 list, listed in descending order of purchase size as of July 2007. The green power purchase is in kilowatt-hours/year.

1. PepsiCo (1,105,045,154)
2. Wells Fargo & Company (550,000,000)
3. Whole Foods Market (509,104,786)
4. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (457,851,838)
5. US Air Force (457,500,000)
6. Johnson & Johnson (400,702,978)
7. US Environmental Protection Agency (329,880,513)
8. Kohl’s Department Stores (201,396,000)
9. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts (196,003,000)
10. Starbucks (185,000,000)
11. DuPont Company (180,000,000)
12. US Department of Energy (157,964,000)
13. PepsiAmericas, Inc. (157,062,875)
14. Vail Resorts, Inc. (152,000,000)
15. Cisco Systems, Inc. (128,204,000)
16. HSBC North America (124,544,000)
17. Staples (121,800,000)
18. New York University (118,616,000)
19. The World Bank Group (114,735,000)
20. University of Pennsylvania (112,000,000)
21. IBM Corporation (110,103,000)
22. Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. (100,200,000)
23. US Department of Veterans Affairs (90,000,000)
24. NatureWorks LLC (89,000,000)
25. Sprint Nextel (87,600,000)