Whole Foods Offsets Electricity Use

Whole Foods Market, Inc., a Fortune 500 company based in Austin, Texas, has purchased more than 458,000 megawatt-hours of wind energy credits to offset all of the electricity used in its stores, facilities, bake houses, distribution centers, regional offices and national headquarters in the U.S. and Canada. The two-year contract with Renewable Choice Energy, Inc., represents the largest corporate purchase of renewable energy credits in U.S. history, according to Kurt Johnson, director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Power Partnership. For more on renewable energy credits, see

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