GREEN MOUNTAIN ENERGY COMPANY
WHO WE ARE Green Mountain Energy Company was founded
resources like wind and solar and carbon offsets
in 1997 with the mission to change the way power
that help neutralize carbon emissions. We
is made.
Today, we remain 100% committed
live our commitment to sustainability inside
to this mission, which makes us the nation’s
and out: Every single product offered by our
longest serving renewable energy retailer and
company has an environmental benefit and our
a clean energy pioneer. We provide customers
company operates with a zero-carbon footprint
with electricity products made from renewable
–distinctions that make us proud!
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ABOUT US: HOME ON THE (MOUNTAIN) RANGE New York City, New York White Plains, New York Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Portland, Oregon
Employees: We have 650 full and part-time employees and contractors supporting our business. Chicago, Illinois Baltimore, Maryland
Customers: Our community includes hundreds of thousands of residential and business customers across the nation Offices: We have regional offices across multiple states.
Plano, Texas Headquarters Austin, Texas
Houston, Texas
McAllen, Texas
OUR IMPACT: TREAD LIGHTLY, IT’S A SMALL PLANET Since we got started in 1997, our customers have helped avoid more than 24.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. That’s like:
Our customers have also helped develop over 70 new solar and wind facilities through their demand for cleaner electricity and contributions to Sun Club.
Taking over 2.3 million cars off the road for a year
As a company, we’re committed to “carbon neutral”
12.7 million households turning off their lights for a year
business operations. We manage our resource consumption first and then retire carbon offsets to balance out the remainder of our carbon footprint which primarily comes from employee commuting and business travel.
Planting 2.9 million trees
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MARKETS AND PRODUCTS: OUR INNOVATIONS AND INSPIRATIONS Green Mountain offers renewable energy products
in Oregon, National Grid GreenUpSM program in New
to residential and business customers in competitive
York and CleanPower Choice Program in New Jersey.
electricity markets in Illinois, Maryland, New York, New Mountain
also
offers
renewable
energy
Jersey and Pennsylvania and Texas. We go beyond the
Green
norm, with innovative product offerings such as 100%
certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets to individuals,
solar electricity, options that help reduce consumption,
businesses and events nationwide. RECs and carbon
proactive communication on individual energy use and
offsets are the industry standard for allowing customers
opportunities to provide solar energy to non-profits.
to balance out unavoidable greenhouse gas emissions, attain carbon neutrality and support projects such
In addition, we partner with utilities and public
as wind farms and methane capture at landfills that
agencies to extend renewable energy options to their
reduce or avoid emissions.
customers including Portland General Electric (PGE)
CUSTOMERS: SAY HELLO TO OUR FRIENDS
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HISTORY OF INNOVATION: THE PEAKS OF THE MOUNTAIN NATIONWIDE With the help of our customers and employees, we’ve donated more than $2.3 million to build more than 50 solar projects in the community through the Green Mountain Energy™ Sun Club™.
Green Mountain is the only retail electricity partner for Nest® dedicated to cleaner energy, allowing consumers to pair a 100% renewable electricity with the Nest Learning Thermostat™.
TEXAS We introduced SolarSPARC™ electricity, the first 100% solar offering in Texas, in September 2013.
The
demand
from
Green
Mountain
customers helped build the first and largest wind farm after Texans were given the right to choose their electricity provider.
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Green Mountain was the first, and we’re still the only retailer dedicated to cleaner energy in Texas since the market opened to competition in 2002.
We introduced the first pollution free electricity product in Texas exclusively for electric vehicle drivers, Pollution Free™ EV.
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NORTHEAST
PARTNERSHIP
With the support of our customers, we helped build the first utility-scale wind farm in Pennsylvania in 1999.
We were the first energy services company in NYC fully dedicated to cleaner energy when we started serving the area in August
We are proud to be the renewable power
2009.
marketer for Portland General Electric (PGE). PGE has more renewable power customers and
Our customer, the Empire State Building, signed at a time when it was NYC’s largest commercial purchaser of 100% renewable energy.
sold more renewable energy in 2012 than any other utility in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
CORPORATE We’ve published sustainability reports that track every year we’ve been in business, one of the only energy retailers in the country to do so. Our online sustainability report website provides transparency to our products and business operations and is updated throughout the year.
Our Austin, TX headquarters is the first Platinum LEED certified tenant space in the city.
Our all-volunteer employee sustainability team, the Green Ambassadors, includes 50+ employees companywide who work to review, update and influence our environmental practices, policies and culture.
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