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Santa Clara Green Power Receives Prestigious EPA/DOE Green Power Leadership Award – Second Year in a Row
Business Wire, October 23, 2007
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For a second year in a row, Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the City of Santa Clara’s municipal electric utility, has won a Green Power Leadership Award, a highly competitive program organized by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Resource Solutions. Last year, SVP was honored in the New Green Power Program category; this recent award is for Green Power Program of the Year for SVP’s 100 percent renewable energy option, Santa Clara Green Power.
SVP is one of only two companies receiving the elite award this year; four other companies took home a Green Power Leadership Award in two other categories, which recognize leading national green power suppliers for their commitment and contribution to the development of the nation’s green power market. The program singled out SVP for its exemplary green power program based on program growth, customer participation, green power sales, and overall value to its customers.
City of Santa Clara Mayor Patricia Mahan accepted the award last night during a celebratory dinner honoring the winners at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, held in conjunction with the Renewable Energy Marketing Conference.
The combined green power supplied by these leading organizations amounts to more than five billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, which is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power nearly 465,000 average American households each year. Overall, retail sales of renewable energy to consumers making voluntary purchases totaled about 12 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006. That represents an increase of 40 percent over last year’s sales numbers.
Libby Klitsch, lklitsch@3degreesinc.com