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J. Tillman at the Mohawk - Giveaway
Austin-based Whole Foods is purchasing the largest share of wind energy credits in the nation. They will be the first major national corporation to buy enough renewable energy credits to make up for all of their energy usage. This USA Today article quotes someone from the EPA as saying that if one company does it, surely others will soon follow. We can always hope! Good on ya, Whole Foods!
On that note, we'll remind you that you can always make a GreenChoice of your own (um, except it looks like they aren't accepting any new residential applications til later this month). Once we moved into our house, one of the first things we did was sign up for Austin Energy's renewable energy program. Now we feel a little less guilty for the amount of energy we consume.
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Don't sign up online and expect it to work -- I tried twice a couple of years back and both times it was like sending information into a black hole. I think they're not focused very much on residential users...
I had no problem signing up - but I think I printed something out from online and faxed it. They called me not much later and told me I was set, and I got a card in the mail saying the same thing.
Today's paper had a blurb indicating that signups for residential green power are now going into a 'lottery' - i.e. they expect to not have enough slots to satisfy interest.
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/stories/other/01/11greenpower.html