Corporate Green Power Effort Expands to Europe

Some of the largest companies in the world this week announced they have increased their purchases of renewable energy. The World Resources Institute (WRI) and members of its Green Power Market Development Group announced 185 new MW of renewable energy purchases and projects, bringing the total number of MW under contract to 360 — the average size of a coal-fired power plant.

The Green Power Market Development Group is a commercial and industrial partnership dedicated to building corporate markets for green power. In the United States its members are Alcoa, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, FedEx Kinko’s, General Motors, IBM, Interface, Johnson & Johnson, NatureWorks LLC, Pitney Bowes, Staples and Starbucks. Projects and purchases in 2005 are taking place at more than 140 facilities across 15 states:

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