Finalized GPP Program Updates
On January 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Green Power Partnership (GPP) announced finalized updates to its program metrics and requirements. Since the program’s inception in 2001, GPP has encouraged organizations and businesses to voluntarily develop and deploy green power strategies to enhance demand for renewable electricity sources. These updates are designed to align with the direction of the business community and GPP’s core objectives. Those objectives include supporting market integrity, assessing impact of procurements, supporting voluntary interest to apply geographic and temporally relevant metrics, and recognizing Partners for pursuing impactful procurements.
The finalized program updates include optional new reporting metrics that will measure Partners’ performance location matching, time matching, emissions balance matching, and the impact of investments into new incremental capacity. Finalized updates also include expanded eligible resource definitions, a new pilot initiative focused on the use phase of sold products, and sunsetting the Green Power Communities initiative but no change to the “new” date for generating sources.
This document describes the GPP’s path forward regarding the suggested updates and provides EPA’s response to stakeholder feedback.
Finalized GPP Program Updates (pdf)
EPA thanks its Green Power Partners and other interested parties for responding to GPP’s request for comments on the proposed updates and for providing insightful and wide-ranging feedback. EPA will incorporate these finalized updates into the GPP’s Program Requirements, providing additional guidance on reporting changes and timelines in 2025.
Proposed Program Updates
On November 7, 2024, EPA provided stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback in response to proposed updates to its program metrics and requirements under consideration (see link below).
EPA proposed optional new reporting metrics that would provide Partners with scores beyond their traditional volume matching by also measuring performance in key areas. In addition to the new metrics, EPA also proposed several other updates to the program, including eligible resources, the “new” date for generating sources, a new pilot initiative focused on the use phase of sold products, and changes to the Green Power Communities initiative.