Fifty-three Fortune 500 Corporations Surpass EPA Green Power Goals

Intel Corporation Leads Nation as New No. 1 Purchaser

Washington, D.C., January 28, 2008 -- In response to EPA’s nationwide challenge issued in December 2006, 53 Fortune 500 companies led by Intel Corporation are now collectively purchasing more than six billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. These purchases surpassed the goals set by EPA’s Green Power Partnership and equal the avoided carbon dioxide emissions of more than 570 million gallons of gasoline each year or the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly 670,000 average American homes annually.

“EPA applauds our Fortune 500 partners for protecting our environment by purchasing green power,” said EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. “By voluntarily shifting to renewable energy, EPA’s environmental partners are proving you don’t need to wait for a signal in order to go green.”

Intel Corporation now leads the nation among EPA Green Power Partners as the top buyer with a purchase of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours per year. PepsiCo is second, followed by Wells Fargo & Company, Whole Foods Market, The Pepsi Bottling Group, and Johnson & Johnson. Cisco Systems and Kohl’s Department Stores recently made sizable purchase increases to place them at seventh and eighth on the list, respectively. Rounding out the top ten green power purchases are Starbucks and DuPont Company.

EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 850 partner organizations to buy green power voluntarily as a way to reduce the environmental impacts associated with conventional electricity use and to support the development of new, renewable generation resources nationwide. Overall, EPA Green Power Partners are buying more than 13 billion kWh of green power annually.

Green power is generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and biogas, as well as low-impact hydropower. Green power resources produce electricity with an environmental profile superior to conventional power technologies and produce no net increase to greenhouse gas emissions.

Below is the final ranking of EPA’s Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge, listed in descending order of purchase size.

Rank Partner Organization Green Power (kilowatt–hours/year)

1 Intel Corporation 1,300,000,000
2 PepsiCo 1,105,045,154
3 Wells Fargo & Company 550,000,000
4 Whole Foods Market 509,104,786
5 The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. 457,851,838
6 Johnson & Johnson 400,702,978
7 Cisco Systems, Inc. 373,500,000
8 Kohl's Department Stores 236,017,000
9 Starbucks 185,000,000
10 DuPont Company 180,063,500
11 Staples 121,800,000
12 IBM Corporation 110,103,000
13 Office Depot 99,529,000
14 Safeway Inc. 90,000,000
15 Sprint Nextel 87,600,000
16 Lowe's 86,000,000
17 Nike, Inc. 79,820,000
18 FedEx Kinko's 76,312,000
19 Citi 56,398,000
20 Advanced Micro Devices / Austin, TX Facilities 53,518,623
21 Hewlett-Packard 50,000,000
22 The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. / Operations 36,000,000
23 (tie) Liz Claiborne, Inc. / NJ Corporate Headquarters 25,000,000
23 (tie) Lockheed Martin Corporate Headquarters Buildings 25,000,000
23 (tie) State Street Corporation 25,000,000
26 Baxter International Inc. 20,500,000
27 Applied Materials, Inc. 19,420,000
28 GE Healthcare / Headquarters 15,816,820
29 ARAMARK Parks & Resorts 15,455,000
30 General Motors / Service Parts Operations 14,050,000
31 Dell, Inc. 12,996,000
32 Macy's, Inc. West Division 10,400,000
33 State Farm / Austin Operations Center 9,651,642
34 Apple Computers / Austin, TX Facilities 9,408,700
35 The Coca-Cola Company 6,100,000
36 Oracle Corporation / Austin Facility 5,400,000
37 United Parcel Service (UPS) / 4 CA Facilities 2,949,545
38 (tie) Pitney Bowes 2,500,000
38 (tie) Raytheon / Aurora, CO 2,500,000
40 Roche / Palo Alto & Pleasanton Sites 2,230,997
41 Lockheed Martin / Palo Alto Facilities 1,800,000
42 (tie) Agilent Technologies / Santa Clara location 1,608,000
42 (tie) Yahoo! Inc. / Santa Clara Sites 1,608,000
44 Time Warner Cable - Central Texas 1,500,000
45 FedEx Express / Oakland Hub Facility 1,172,430
46 3M / Austin, TX Facilities 1,144,000
47 GE Healthcare Technologies - Surgery 840,000
48 Autoliv / Ogden Facility 711,000
49 GE Money - Corporate Payment Services 678,000
50 Monsanto / Agracetus Campus 399,000
51 John Deere Co. / Dallas, TX Facility 154,333
52 Lockheed Martin / Plant 1 - Sunnyvale, CA 80,000
53 GE Energy / Inspection & Repair Services 72,000

Today, EPA also announced an update to its other Top Partner lists, including its National Top 25 list, which includes 11 Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge partners. The U.S. Air Force moved back up to No. 3 nationally. HSBC North America jumped to the 10th spot, by recently increasing its green power purchase to 300 million kilowatt hours per year. New to the National Top 25 list are two Texas cities — the City of Dallas at No. 9 and the City of Houston at No. 12.

For added information on EPA's Fortune 500 Green Power Challenge please visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/fortune500.htm.

For added information on EPA’s National Top 25 list of green power purchasers please visit: http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/toplists/top25.htm.

Source: EPA

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