Issue 42, July 27, 2016

• GPP Releases Updated Top Partner Rankings and On-Site Renewables Challenge
• Welcome New Partners!
• GPP by the Numbers
• Congratulations to Partners Celebrating Their 10-Year Anniversary with the Green Power Partnership
• Center for Resource Solutions Seeks Comments on Green-e Certification Standards
• Bloomberg Article, “Waging America’s Wars Using Renewable Energy”
• Renewable Energy Markets Conference—Early Bird Registration Available Through August 16
• ACCO Integrated Renewables Workshop
• EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership Supply Chain Webinar

GPP Releases Updated Top Partner Rankings and On-Site Renewables Challenge

In case you missed it, on July 25, GPP released updates to its Top Partner Rankings, which highlight organizations that are choosing to use electricity from clean, renewable sources.

• National Top 100 Partners: Seven new Partners appear on the list – Goldman Sachs, U.S. General Services Administration, IKEA, Philips Electronics, Biogen, Cinemark USA, and Philips Lighting – ranking 19^th, 30^th, 37^th, 60^th, 69^th, 81^st, and 83^rd, respectively. Intel, the District of Columbia, Lockheed Martin, BNY Mellon, Best Buy, Colgate-Palmolive, the State of Delaware, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture shook up the list even more with large increases in their green power use.
• Top 30 On-Site Partners: Four new Partners made the list: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation at number four; General Motors / GMVM Orion at number eight; IKEA at number 11; and the U.S. General Services Administration at number 14.
• Fortune 500®: Several of the Partners mentioned above also appear on GPP's Fortune 500 top list. Additionally, the three newly listed Fortune 500 companies -- Baxalta Inc., Performance FoodService /North Center, and Hertz Corporation / Selected U.S. Facilities -- also appear on the top list.

EPA will update the Top Lists on October 24, the data deadline for which is October 4. Check out all of the Partnership's top green power users.

GPP also released updates to the On-Site Renewables Challenge. Eleven new Partners joined the Challenge and in total, the 321 participants used nearly 1.4 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of on-site green power. EPA created the Challenge in support of President Obama's Climate Action Plan (PDF) (21 pp, 311K), with a goal of doubling on-site green power use by Green Power Partners by 2020. Stay tuned for the next update, also on October 24.

Learn more about the On-Site Renewables Challenge.

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Welcome New Partners!

GPP welcomes the following 38 organizations that joined the Green Power Partnership in the second quarter of 2016.

• Agriculture & Natural Resources: Andean Naturals, Inc. (Calif.)
• Automotive: General Motors / GMVM Orion (Mich.)
• Banking & Financial Services: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (N.Y.)
• Consumer Products: Beard On Facial Hair Products (Texas)
• Education (Higher): The University of the South (Tenn.), Slippery Rock University (Pa.)
• Education (K-12): Dwight-Englewood School (N.J.)
• Energy Services: FirstService Residential / Manhattan Office including FS Energy (N.Y.), Electronic Power Design, Inc. (Texas)
• Government (Local, Municipal): Franklin County, OH / 47 Facilities (Ohio), City of Irving, TX / West Irving Library (Texas)
• Government (State): California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Calif.)
• Green Power Community: Urbana, IL Community (Ill.)
• Health Care: Delta Dental of California (Calif.), Children's Health System of Texas (Texas)
• Hotels & Lodging: GP Hotel Dallas LLC (Texas)
• Industrial Goods & Services: PLUSfoam Compound Technologies (Calif.)
• Legal Services: Rizzo Mattingly Bosworth PC (Ore.)
• Non-Profit (NGO): The Brookwood Community (Texas)
• Other: PredElection (Calif.)
• Restaurants & Cafes: Fields Good Chicken (N.Y.)
• Retail: IKEA (Pa.), Gone Green (Ariz.), CW Lighting and Associates LLC (Texas)
• Technology & Telecom: CoreSpace, Inc. (Texas)
• Wineries & Breweries: One Barrel Brewing Company (Wis.), Earthbound Brewing LLC (Mont.), Few Spirits (Ill.), Torn Label Brewing Company (Mo.), Black Hog Brewing, LLC (Conn.), Eastlake Craft Brewery, LLC (Minn.), Appalachian Mountain Brewery, Inc. (N.C.), Lion Bridge Brewing Company (Iowa), Bearded Iris Brewing Company, LLC (Tenn.), Brothers Craft Brewing (Va.), Stone Cellar Brewpub (Wis.), Green Bird Cellars & Organic Farms (Mich.), Georgetown Vineyards (Ohio)

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GPP by the Numbers

Technology and telecommunications companies procure a good portion of the green power in the Green Power Partnership. As of July 2016, GPP has 62 tech and telecom Partners that collectively use more than 10.6 billion kWh of green power. While tech and telecom companies comprise less than 5 percent of all Green Power Partners, they use 30 percent of the green power that accounts for the Partnership's total numbers, which is enough electricity to power a whopping 972,000 average American homes for a year.

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Congratulations to Partners Celebrating Their 10-Year Anniversary with the Green Power Partnership

Thirty-six organizations are celebrating 10 years of partnership with GPP in the second and third quarters of 2016.

• Agriculture & Natural Resources: Carolina Plantation Rice (S.C.)
• Consulting Services: The Cadmus Group, Inc. (Mass.)
• Consumer Products: The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. / Operations and Selected Retail Brands (N.Y.), CTI Paper USA (Wis.), Method Products, PBC (Calif.)
• Education (Higher): Westminster College (Utah), Colorado State University (Colo.), University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point (Wis.), Butte College (Calif.), University of Washington (Wash.), University of Central Oklahoma (Okla.), Whitman College (Wash.), Allegheny College (Pa.), Drexel University (Pa.)
• Education (K-12): Kentfield School District (Calif.)
• Government (Federal): U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (DC)
• Government (Local, Municipal): City of Bellingham, WA (Wash.), Bend Park and Recreation District (Ore.), Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (Md.), City of Ann Arbor, MI (Mich.), City of Palo Alto, CA (Calif.), City of Austin, TX (Texas)
• Green Power Community: Palo Alto, CA Community (Calif.), Park City, UT Community (Utah)
• Industrial Goods & Services: Neenah Paper, Inc. (Wis.)
• Marketing, Advertising & PR: Informz, Inc. (N.Y.)
• Non-Profit (NGO): Artists for Humanity, Inc. (Mass.)
• Other: Social Venture Network (Calif.)
• Printing & Packaging: Curtis Packaging Corporation (Conn.), LPS Industries / Manufacturing Facility (N.J.)
• Recreation: Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (Wyo.)
• Retail: Frontier Natural Products Co-op (Iowa), The Paper Mill Store.com (Wis.), Kohl's Department Stores (Wis.), Giant Eagle, Inc. (Pa.)
• Wineries & Breweries: Deschutes Brewery, Inc. (Ore.)

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Center for Resource Solutions Seeks Comments on Green-e Certification Standards

Green-e Energy is seeking feedback on the Green-e Energy International Framework Criteria for Renewable Energy Certification (Framework) and is accepting comments from all interested stakeholders through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, August 29, 2016. The Framework will be used to develop high-quality renewable energy standards for Green-e Energy certification, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electricity.

To comment, take the survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K5X6KKL. Prior to taking the survey, you may download and review a PDF of all survey questions.

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Bloomberg Article, "Waging America's Wars Using Renewable Energy"

GPP Partner Bloomberg recently published an article regarding the long-term commitments that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has made purchasing clean and renewable power. DoD is the second-largest buyer of renewable electricity through long-term power-purchase agreements (PPA) in the country, only surpassed by Google. This revelation offers one of the clearest examples of the same clean energy imperatives driving companies, cities, universities, and other federal agencies.

At the Pentagon, the military has committed to acquiring up to 3 gigawatts (GW) of renewable capacity before 2025. The Air Force and the Navy lead the armed services in commissioning clean energy projects. Retired Navy Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, now an assistant secretary for energy, installations, and environment, said economic security is "inextricably" linked with energy and the environment. "You can't consider one without considering effects on the other."

View the article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-05/waging-america-s-wars-using-renewable-energy

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Renewable Energy Markets Conference—Early Bird Registration Available Through August 16

For more than 20 years, the annual Renewable Energy Markets (REM) conference has been the leading forum for the clean energy marketplace. Don't miss this year's conference, taking place October 16-18 in San Francisco, California. The Green Power Leadership Awards will be presented at the conference on Monday, October 17. Register now to receive the Early Bird Discount!

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ACCO Integrated Renewables Workshop: Streamlining Market Access & Renewables Implementation for Energy Stability & GHG Reduction

September 7-8, 2016 at Loyola University in Chicago
http://renewables.ACCOonline.org

The EPA Green Power Partnership is partnering with the Association of Climate Change Officers on the Integrated Renewables Workshop to be held September 7-8, 2016 in Chicago. The first wave of speakers can be found here. GPP Partners & Stakeholders may reference promotional code Partners-Discount-EPA when prompted for a 20 percent discount on the published rates. If you're interested in presenting at the event, please contact psantiago@ACCOonline.org.

This interactive program will enable attendees to learn from leading practitioners with experience guiding on-site and offsite renewable energy projects from start to finish. The program will be comprised of training activities, interactive exercises, hands-on learning opportunities for successfully navigating the intricacies of renewable energy projects, and case studies from different industries illustrating strategies for addressing challenges and opportunities related to establishing a comprehensive renewables strategy.

The workshop will help public and private sector electricity consumers advance renewable energy strategies by overcoming common barriers and taking advantage of key opportunities and more advanced approaches. Individuals who are just launching their renewable energy initiatives will benefit from pre-workshop training activities, while those who have already engaged in significant renewables work will benefit from a range of topics designed to help them bolster their capabilities through exposure to topics and solutions they have not yet addressed. Even the most seasoned practitioners will benefit from ample networking opportunities and hearing insights from their peers. All participants will leave with a clear understanding of the renewable energy marketplace, and a plan for engaging the right stakeholders to integrate cutting edge initiatives into the energy strategies of their organizations.

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EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership Supply Chain Webinar

Improving Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chains: Best Practices

Friday, September 9, 2016
2:00-3:00 PM ET

Register for this webinar

This EPA webinar will highlight best practices for environmental sustainability in the supply chain. Guest speakers from three leading companies will highlight the importance of engaging and rewarding suppliers to drive sustainability; ways to align and clarify value for suppliers, incentivizing suppliers to meet key environmental, health, and safety criteria; and building internal organizational support for engaging suppliers on sustainability, thereby driving innovation for organizational change. Speakers will discuss their initiatives, what's worked and what hasn't worked, lessons learned, and more. EPA will also present on supply chain policy work, as well as key findings from a recent dialogue with leading stakeholders.

Speakers:

• Melissa Bouilly, Program Manager, Supply Chain Responsibility, Dell
• Melissa Klein, Communications Lead, Center for Corporate Climate Leadership, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Rick Love, Manager, Environmental Sustainability, United Technologies Corporation
• Verena Radulovic, Product Lead, ENERGY STAR Electronics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Kathleen Shaver, Director of Sustainability and Risk, Cisco Systems
• Nena Shaw, Director, Integrated Environmental Strategies Division, Office of Policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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