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  • Sprint Leads Wireless Industry in Green Power, Securing No. 13 on EPA Fortune 500® Green Power Partner List

    By 3Degrees | February 1, 2012
    Press Release
     

    Only wireless carrier named to National Top 50

    OVERLAND PARK, Kan. January 31, 2012 - Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) announced today that the company has moved up from No. 20 to No. 13 on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA's) Fortune® 500 Green Power Partner list, and to No. 26 on the National Top 50 list highlighting the largest green power purchasers. Sprint is the only wireless carrier to appear on the National Top 50 list...

    Sprint’s latest renewable energy initiative was the purchase of a strategic portfolio of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from renewable energy provider, 3Degrees. A renewable energy certificate represents the environmental attributes that are created when electricity is generated using renewable sources such as wind or solar.

    Tags: 3Degrees Corporate, Electricity, EPA Green Power Partnership Program, Green Power and Carbon Balancing Services, Partner Press Release, RECs, Sustainable Businesses
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  • 3Degrees Secures 2011 Renewable Energy Certificate Market Triple Crown

    By 3Degrees | December 20, 2011
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    Earns Top REC Market Rankings from Environmental Finance and Energy Risk, and Receives Fifth-straight U.S. DOE Non-Utility Green Power Supplier of the Year Award

    SAN FRANCISCO, December 20, 2011—3Degrees announced today that it has secured the 2011 Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Market “Triple Crown,” after having received the three most important honors awarded in 2011 to renewable energy sales, trading, and marketing firms.

    On December 14, 2011, Environmental Finance named 3Degrees Best Trading Firm, Renewable Energy Certificates, North America in its 12th annual market survey. In early December, Energy Risk announced that it had ranked 3Degrees the top U.S. Renewable Energy Certificates Dealer in its 2011 environmental markets survey. In addition, at the Renewable Energy Markets Conference in November, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded 3Degrees its Green Power Leadership Award for Non-Utility Green Power Supplier of the Year.

    “Since its founding, 3Degrees has dedicated itself to becoming the nation’s leading renewable energy certificate sales, trading, and marketing firm,” said Dan Kalafatas, CEO of 3Degrees. “Winning these three awards simultaneously is unique in our industry, confirming that our efforts are bearing fruit and that we are succeeding in helping our partners utilize renewable energy markets to build value for their stakeholders and society at large.”

    Tags: 3Degrees Corporate, Environmental Market Services, Environmental Markets, Green Power and Carbon Balancing Services, Green Power Programs, Industry Leadership, RECs, Utilities and LSEs, Utility Partnership Services
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  • 3Degrees Recognized with U.S. Department of Energy Green Power Leadership Award for Fifth Straight Year

    By 3Degrees | November 16, 2011
    Press Release
     

    Five-Time Non-Utility Green Power Supplier of the Year Leads Industry in Building and Meeting Demand for Renewable Energy

    SAN FRANCISCO, November 16, 2011 — At a ceremony today at the 2011 Renewable Energy Markets Conference, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) presented 3Degrees with the 2011 Green Power Leadership Award for Non-Utility Green Power Supplier of the Year.

    This is the fifth year in a row that 3Degrees has received the honor, which is awarded by the DOE to companies that have demonstrated exceptional achievement over the past year in helping build and meet demand for renewable energy through market-based mechanisms. 3Degrees has received the DOE’s Green Power Leadership Award every year since the company was founded in 2007.

    Tags: 3Degrees Corporate, Industry Leadership
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  • 3Degrees Expands Green Power Program Services to Utility Customers in Connecticut, Maine, and Washington

    By 3Degrees | November 15, 2011
    Press Release
     

    Utilities Across the Nation Choose 3Degrees to Help Them Offer Renewable Energy to Their Customers

    SAN FRANCISCO, November 15, 2011 — At today’s Renewable Energy Markets Conference, 3Degrees announced that it has been selected by the Maine Public Utility Commission to launch a new, voluntary statewide green power program. In addition, the firm announced that it has won a competitive bidding process to be a green power supplier to the CTCleanEnergyOptions program. With these announcements, 3Degrees will soon be able to offer green power options to the majority of residential and commercial utility customers in the states of Maine and Connecticut.

    The firm also announced that Seattle City Light has selected 3Degrees to help manage customer outreach for its Green Up green power program, and that Puget Sound Energy has decided to renew its green power program services contract with 3Degrees, after their current three-year partnership helped increase PSE’s Green Power Program participation rate by 50 percent since January 2008.

    With these new and renewed contracts, 3Degrees and its utility partners will offer green power options to over 7.7 million residential and commercial utility customers in seven states. This represents growth of 2.5 million customers, or 48 percent, in 3Degrees’ utility voluntary program business since 2010.

    Tags: 3Degrees Corporate, Electricity, Green Power Programs, RECs, Utilities and LSEs, Utility Partnership Services
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