(AGENPARL) - Roma, 18 Settembre 2024 - (AGENPARL) – mer 18 settembre 2024 EPA Selects Irving, Texas-based Signature Aviation as a 2024 Green Power Partner
 “The 2024 Green Power Leadership Award winners have made outstanding strides in helping to encourage clean, renewable electricity in this country,” said Paul Gunning, Director of the Office of Atmospheric Protection. “Each year, we see increasingly impactful and sophisticated strategies from these leaders. EPA commends their commitment to powering their operations while curbing their emissions, protecting public health and the environment, and growing the green power market.”
Signature Aviation is a support services company for business and private aviation that is being recognized for its tiered green power development strategy incorporating on-and off-site renewable energy development, ambitious electrification initiatives, and leadership and engagement with industry peers. Signature Aviation meets 100% of its electricity needs through a mixed portfolio that prioritizes generation geographically close to its operational use. The aviation grounds services company has maintained 100% green power usage while implementing an ambitious strategy to transition ground service equipment from diesel and gasoline to electric power, with 1,160 units transitioned to electric or low-emitting technologies to date. Signature Aviation also leads its peers in green energy procurement as the first fixed-base operator to achieve 100% green power procurement. 
For more than 20 years, the Green Power Leadership Awards have recognized hundreds of organizations for their exceptional achievements and leadership in the green power marketplace. This year’s Green Power Leadership Award recipients are using nearly 14 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, enough to power approximately 1.3 million average American homes for a year. The 2024 Green Power Leadership Award winners stand out through their green power engagement within their respective spheres of influence, deploying strategies such as maximizing onsite wind and solar generation, creating toolkits to engage peers and suppliers in the green power market, and pioneering power purchase agreement models to deliver carbon-free power along with equity benefits.
Green power is electricity generated from renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, eligible biomass, and low-impact hydro. These high-quality renewable sources produce green power with little to zero air emissions, or impact on the environment or human health. EPA’s Green Power Partners drive demand for investment in renewable energy in the U.S. green power market and influence suppliers to switch to green power, accelerating development of these resources and leading the way to a clean energy future.
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