Top 25 Green Power Purchasers

The Environmental Protection Agency today announced the country's top 25 green power purchasers -- those companies and organizations that choose to run their operations on wind, solar, hydro and other renewable energy sources.

Together, the companies' purchases reduce pollution -- relative to what their energy use would have caused if generated by coal, oil and other heavily polluting electricity sources -- by 700,000 vehicles.

Renewable energy purchases through the EPA's Green Partners program have increased 163% since January 2006. Here's the list, including the kilowatt-hours per year for each:

1. PepsiCo: 1,105,045,154
2. Wells Fargo & Company: 550,000,000
3. Whole Foods Market: 509,104,786
4. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.: 457,851,838
5. U.S. Air Force: 457,500,000
6. Johnson & Johnson: 400,702,978
7. EPA: 329,880,513
8. Kohl's Department Stores: 201,396,000
9. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts: 196,003,000
10. Starbucks: 185,000,000
11. DuPont Company: 180,000,000
12. U.S. Department of Energy: 157,964,000
13. PepsiAmericas, Inc.: 157,062,875
14. Vail Resorts, Inc.: 152,000,000
15. Cisco Systems, Inc.: 128,204,000
16. HSBC North America: 124,544,000
17. Staples: 121,800,000
18. New York University: 118,616,000
19. The World Bank Group: 114,735,000
20. University of Pennsylvania: 112,000,000
21. IBM Corporation: 110,103,000
22. Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.: 100,200,000
23. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: 90,000,000
24. NatureWorks LLC: 89,000,000
25. Sprint Nextel: 87,600,000

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