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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, April 30, 2008
EPA honors Colby, SNHU for using 'green' power
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named Colby College and Southern New Hampshire University national winners in its 2007-2008 College University Green Power Challenge.
The schools won for buying 100 percent of their electricity demand from renewable sources such as hydro- and wind-generated power, according to the EPA. Combined, Waterville, Maine-based Colby and Manchester, N.H.-based SNHU purchased nearly 30 million kilowatt-hours of "green" power -- solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro -- this year.
The challenge involved 40 colleges, including the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Connecticut College, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Hamilton College and Wesleyan University.
Over the course of the 2007-2008 academic year, the EPA ranked collegiate athletic conferences by the total amount of green power purchased by their member schools. To be eligible, each conference had to have a collective green power purchase of at least 10 million kilowatt hours.
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