What is an EPA Green Power Community?
All across the country communities are pledging to reduce their carbon footprint by joining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Community Challenge (GPC). The Green Power Community Challenge is a national, year-long campaign that encourages communities to use renewable energy. Communities will compete to see which one can achieve the highest green power percentage of total electricity used and which one can use more green power overall. The EPA will announce the two winning communities in September 2011.
Rockville's Challenge
WGES is your partner in meeting your community's green power challenge goals.
On February 28, 2011 the Rockville mayor and City Council agreed unanimously to partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to become an EPA Green Power Community and has issued a challenge to all residents and businesses to switch to green power. Rockville is challenging its businesses and residents to purchase 65.8 million kWh from green sources, or 3% of the community's total electricity use. This is the equivalent of taking 8,500 cars off the road for one year!
To read about Rockville's participation in the GPC challenge, click here.
WGES is helping Rockville's residents and businesses do their part to meet their green power goals. Click here to learn how you can go green with WGES CleanStepsSM WindPower!
To learn how your large commercial business can purchase green power, call 703.793.7578.
* Unsure if you qualify as a small business? Click here.
DC's Challenge
The Nation's #1 Green Power Community!
WGES is your partner in meeting your community's green power challenge goals.
On March 18, District of Columbia officials announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized the nation's capital as the leading EPA Green Power Community. District Government, businesses, institutions and residents collectively purchase nearly 756 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, or 8% of the District's total electricity usage. This is the equivalent of taking 102,000 cars off the road for one year!
To maintain its #1 position, the District is challenging its residents, businesses and organizations citywide to increase their green power purchases by 33% by August 31, 2011 to more than 1 billion kWh annually!
WGES is helping DC's residents and businesses do their part to meet their green power goals. Click here to learn how you can go green with WGES CleanStepsSM WindPower!
To learn how your large commercial business can purchase green power, call 703.793.7578.
* Unsure if you qualify as a small business? Click here.
About LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification program by the non‐profit U.S. Green Building Council. LEED is a national framework used for certifying high performance, sustainable buildings. There are currently four levels of LEED certifications: Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The number of points a project can receive for their purchase of Renewable Energy Credits varies based on the project type.
As a WGES CleanStepsSM WindPower customer, you can use your purchase of Green‐e Energy certified Renewable Energy Credits to earn LEED certification points. To learn more about LEED, visit www.usbgc.org or contact your Account Manager.
