Press release:
News
Release
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
New
England Regional Office
August 14, 2012
Contact: David Deegan, (617) 918-1017
Two
Connecticut-based Companies Recognized by EPA as Top Green Power
Partners
(Boston, Mass. – Aug. 14, 2012) – Two
corporations based in Connecticut – XEROX Corp. based in Norwalk, and Pitney
Bowes Inc., based in Stamford – have been recognized by EPA as being among the
nation’s top purchasers of Green Power in the technology and telecom sector.
Green power is electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar,
wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydro and produces no net increase of
greenhouse gas emissions.
“These two companies, along with EPA’s other
Green Power Purchasers, are leaning forward and driving the development of new
renewable energy sources by demonstrating that green power makes good
environmental and business sense,” said Curt Spalding, regional administrator of
EPA’s New England office.
XEROX Corp. is an international leader in
document production, IT outsourcing and production printing. The company
currently uses over 35 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of green power 100 percent
produced by wind, for a total of 7.76 percent of their total US electric load.
XEROX’s green power purchase is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions of more than 5,000 passenger vehicles per year, or the CO2 emissions
from the electricity use of nearly 3,000 average American homes annually.
“Through our partnership with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, we support the development of clean electricity
sources because it’s a sound business decision and essential to reduce future
climate risks,” said Diane O’Connor, Xerox global vice president of Environment,
Health, Safety and Sustainability. “By purchasing green power, we are taking
advantage of opportunities to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and work
towards our goal of Carbon Neutrality.”
Pitney Bowes Inc. is a leading provider of
customer communication technologies. A $5.3 billion company with over 28,000
employees, they serve both large corporations and small-to-medium-sized
businesses in more than 100 countries. Pitney Bowes currently uses over 15
million kWh of green power, which is 100 percent produced by wind, for a total
of 12.1 percent of their total US electric load. Pitney Bowes’ green power
purchase is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of more
than 2,000 passenger vehicles per year, or the CO2 emissions from the
electricity use of nearly 1,000 average American homes annually.
“Pitney Bowes is a founding member of the EPA
Green Power Partnership Program, and we are pleased to be recognized by the EPA
Partnership and look forward to sharing this honor with other like minded
corporations. We began purchasing renewable energy credits in 2003 as part of
our energy conservation and sustainability portfolio and over the years we have
invested in over 71M kWh of renewable energy. In addition, our Corporate Energy
Task Force has led us in the implementation of energy conservation measures
across our lines of business that have provided us with additional savings of
over $2.3M in energy costs and a reduction of over 16M kWh of energy
consumption. The combined efforts have resulted in the avoidance of over 33,000
tons of carbon dioxide emissions,” said John Thaler, Director of EHS Process
Excellence at Pitney Bowes Inc.
EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with more
than 1,300 partner organizations, which are voluntarily using more than 21
billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, which helps to reduce the
environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. This is equivalent to
avoiding the carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of over 1.8
million average American homes for a year.
More information on EPA’s Green Power Partnership (
http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/)
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