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Fifty-three Fortune 500 Corporations Surpass EPA Green Power Goals; Intel Corporation Leads Nation as New No. 1 Purchaser

Release Date: 01/28/2008
Contact Information: Dave Ryan, 202-564-4355 / [email protected]

(Washington, D.C. - Jananuary 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 https://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/fortune500.htm.

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