Green Mountain Energy, Texas' only energy company that is solely devoted to green energy, announced that it will donate 48 solar panels to the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce's new headquarters at Third Street and Heritage Square downtown. The 'solar array' gift will meet 6.5 percent of the 14,0...
Platinum has landed in Austin. The new Ronald McDonald House of Austin and Central Texas that opened late last year at the Mueller redevelopment is the first building in Austin to achieve a platinum LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The certification was announced this week...
Yellow Springs residents will soon have the opportunity to ensure that the cost of their share of household energy use goes to supporting renewable power sources like the sun, wind, waterways and landfill gas. Village Council on Monday, May 19, agreed to initiate a new 'green pricing' program tha...
The Port of Vancouver has signed an agreement with Green Mountain Energy to purchase Green-e certified renewable energy credits (RECs). The port has purchased the equivalent of 60% of its estimated annual electricity usage from Pacific Northwest wind-sourced RECs. In recognition of that commitmen...
Executives with retail electricity companies say they're selling more renewable energy to businesses these days than to residential customers. Paul Thomas, chief executive of Green Mountain Energy, which sells renewable energy, said corporate customers will make up about half his business this ye...
Buying pools may help encourage more green energy development. By combining consumers into one larger block, electricity suppliers say that they are able to leverage their buying power to bring down prices for all technologies, including renewable energy. In some cases around the country, cities ...