Thursday, September 18, 2003

Good news from ENN,

Thursday, September 18, 2003
By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press


WASHINGTON — Some of the country's major corporations are embracing the idea of thinking green when buying electricity in hopes of spurring the development of renewable energy sources — while in many cases also helping their own bottom line.

The World Resources Institute brought together a dozen major U.S. companies and got them to pledge that by 2010 at least 1,000 megawatts of the power they use will come from renewable sources such as wind, solar, and hydrogen fuel cells.

While still small compared to the total amount of electricity used by many of the companies, that would be equal to the electricity generated by a typical large coal-burning power plant. It's about the same amount of power used to supply 750,000 homes.

In a major step toward achieving the goal, the coalition of companies, known as the Green Power Market Development Group, on Wednesday was announcing...(Read on in: Some companies are attracted to green energy)

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