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EPA Selects 2024’s Leading Green Power Partners
WASHINGTON?—?Today, Sept. 17, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced the Green Power Leadership Award winners for 2024, honoring four
leading organizations in EPA’s Green Power Partnership: Microsoft
Corporation, MilliporeSigma, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and
Signature Aviation. The 2024 winners go above and beyond simply procuring
green power. Actions by these winners push boundaries in the green power
market and demonstrate projects that can be replicated by a range of
organizations across the economy. They exemplify the partnership’s goals of
driving innovative procurement strategies, enabling green power access and
accelerating the transition to a pollution-free electricity sector.
“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.”
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.
The EPA Green Power Leadership Award winners for 2024 are:
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Corporation, Inc., a multinational tech company based in Redmond,
Washington, is being recognized for large-scale procurement, leadership in
temporal and geographic matching of renewable energy generation to electricity
consumption, and initiatives to deliver equity benefits through investments in
green power. In 2024, Microsoft used more than 10 billion kWh of green power,
equal to the annual electricity use of nearly 1 million average American
homes. The company is also supporting market development of the infrastructure
required to track and dispatch generation to match electricity consumption in
moving towards its goal of achieving 100% carbon-free energy consumption, 100%
of the time, by 2030. EPA is also recognizing Microsoft for its energy equity
initiatives, including partnering with a national African American-owned solar
development company for a 250-megawatt portfolio of solar projects with an
emphasis on environmental justice.
MilliporeSigma
MilliporeSigma, a multinational science and technology company based in
Burlington, Massachusetts, is being recognized for its innovative procurement
approach, employee engagement, and efforts to increase renewable energy
adoption within its supply chain. MilliporeSigma procures 100% renewable
energy through a diverse portfolio of on- and off-site supply options,
including self-supply, financial power purchase agreements, retail renewable
energy certificates, and utility green tariffs. The company empowers employees
to take part in its sustainability strategy by committing to actions related
to green power, such as suggesting facility improvements and switching to
green power at home. MilliporeSigma also encourages suppliers to use green
power by assessing supplier knowledge of green power options, requesting that
suppliers establish and report targets around renewable electricity, and
providing a toolkit to help suppliers engage in the green power market. 
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, located in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, is being recognized for its 100% on- and off-site green power
procurement strategy, innovative educational initiatives, and significant
electrification efforts matched with green power. Phipps Conservatory produces
power on its campus through solar photovoltaic arrays and a wind turbine. The
garden also matches its ambitious electrification initiatives with 100% green
power procurement, with three new all-electric buildings and ongoing
electrification initiatives for existing buildings and outdoor equipment. In
addition to regularly educating its nearly 500,000 annual visitors about green
power, it hosts an annual “Making the Switch at Phipps” program where
energy providers inform visitors about their green power options, offering
free annual memberships to those who choose 100% green power in their homes.
Phipps also established The Climate Toolkit, enabling 184 participant
institutions serving over 86 million annual visitors to access resources
related to energy efficiency and green energy for their own institutions. 
Signature Aviation
Signature Aviation, based in Irving, Texas, 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. 
Background
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase green
power use among U.S. organizations. The goal of the partnership is to advance
the American market for green power development to reduce air emissions and
other environmental impacts associated with electricity use. In 2022, the
partnership had nearly 700 partners voluntarily using nearly 95 billion kWh of
green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations
such as Fortune 500® companies; small and medium sized businesses; local,
state, and federal governments; and colleges and universities. For additional
information, please visit?EPA’s Green Power Partnership webpage.
The Green Power Leadership Awards are announced at the Renewable Energy
Markets Conference, for which EPA is an organizing sponsor.
Learn more about EPA’s?2024 Green Power Leadership Award winners. 
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