The EPA’s Green Power Partnership announced the winners for its three leadership award categories: Green Power Partner of the Year, Green Power Purchase, and On-Site Generation. The combined commitments of these organizations amount to nearly 5 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, equivalent to powering more than 460,000 average American households each year.

The term Green Power encompasses many fields and as our planet’s natural resources are slowly running out, we must find alternatives to replace them. We must take into consideration the serious problem of greenhouse gases and global warming.There are many alternative sources of renewable energy and these are the future technologies that must be developed if we are to provide future generations with a healthy environment in which to live.

ITC Holdings has developed a power transmission network, dubbed the Green Power Express, which will support the movement of 12,000 megawatts of renewable energy from wind power in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa. ...... "This project will be an integral component to ITC's efforts to create a high-voltage backbone that can meet America's renewable energy goals and eliminate costly inefficiencies in the grid.

In March 2003, Dow joined The World Resources Institute's Green Power Market Development Group . The alliance creates new markets for renewable energy. The ultimate goal is to expand the green power options so that companies can reduce their global impact.

Washington -- The mayor and members of the City Council of Santa Clara, California, knew they and the Silicon Valley Power (SVP) utility got it right when their program offering electricity from renewable resources attracted the area’s high-profile companies such as Yahoo!, Cisco Systems and Agilent Technologies. The 2006 Green Power Supplier Award for the program boosted their confidence even more. It was one of the six awards given by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Center for Resource Solutions, a nonprofit group that certifies and verifies green power program.

An idea conceived in 2001 and operational by 2003, Green Power EMC was launched as the first renewable energy program in Georgia and is now one of the largest renewable energy programs in the southeastern United States.

Today, 37 of Georgia's member-owned electric cooperatives have signed on with Green Power EMC. This represents approximately 3 million Georgians who now have the power to help the environment by using clean, green energy. To date, Green Power EMC has generated 125 million kilowatt-hours of green energy, providing the same environmental benefits as taking 125,000 cars off Georgia's roads, or planting 176,000 acres in tress.

Until now I've avoided the debate over a proposed wind project in Texas involving Chinese investors, federal renewable energy stimulus grants and wind turbines from China, mainly because I didn't think I had anything salient to add to the unpleasant mix of protectionism and second-guessing that was unfolding. This morning I read a posting on the subject from the Breakthrough Institute that, while offering a coherent explanation of how we got to this point, convinced me that the real problem still hasn't been addressed. Although the inconsistency of past and present US energy policy is readily apparent, the current concerns arise from general confusion over the benefits of renewable energy, exacerbated by the recent effort to spin these projects and technologies in terms of "green jobs." When we don't really understand why we are doing something, it's easy to make any outcome look like a failure--and there is no shortage of elements from which to craft such a view in the situation at hand.