The E.P.A. has released its top 50 green energy list. Combined, these top 50 largest purchases amount to nearly 11.8 billion kilowatt-hours annually, which represents more than 70% of the green power commitments made by all EPA Green Power Partners. Included on this list is Vail Resorts, Inc. (#25).


These green power purchases help reduce the environmental impacts of electricity use and support the development of new renewable generation capacity nationwide, states the E.P.A. Web site.

The total list is as follows:


1. Intel Corporation
2. PepsiCo
3. Kohl's Department Stores
4. Dell Inc.
5. Whole Foods Market
6. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.
7. Johnson & Johnson
8. U.S. Air Force
9. Cisco Systems, Inc.
10. City of Houston, TX
11. City of Dallas, TX
12. (tie) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12. (tie) HSBC North America
14. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
15. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. / California and Texas Facilities
16. Kimberly-Clark Corporation
17. City of Chicago, IL
18. Starbucks
19. University of Pennsylvania
20. DuPont Company
21. Wells Fargo & Company
22. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
23. U.S. Department of Energy
24. PepsiAmericas, Inc.
25. Vail Resorts, Inc.
26. New York University
27. Staples
28. Bloomberg LP
29. The World Bank Group
30. (tie) Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.
30. (tie) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
32. Lowe's
33. The Dannon Company, Inc.
34. State of Connecticut
35. WhiteWave Foods Company
36. Safeway Inc.
37. State of Wisconsin
38. Sprint Nextel
39. Pennsylvania State University
40. Sony DADC
41. Coldwater Creek Inc
42. The Tower Companies
43. U.S. General Services Administration / Region 2
44. Motorola, Inc.
45. ING
46. Advanced Micro Devices / Austin, TX Facilities
47. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
48. City of San Diego, CA
49. Oregon State University
50. California State University System