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Boston University begins buying clean energy today from the South Dakota wind farm that the University enabled, fulfilling a key goal of the University’s Climate Action Plan (CAP).
BU will buy 205,000 megawatt hours of electricity annually for 15 years from wind farm developer, builder, and operator ENGIE North America. By reselling that clean power to Midwest consumers and helping decarbonize that region’s power grid, the University will earn legal credits, called Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), against its own carbon emissions in Boston. Those credits are a critical piece of the CAP’s strategy for cutting campus and global operations emissions to zero by 2040.
The CAP also commits the University to boosting its energy efficiency and renewable sources, in line with the current greening of New England’s own power grid.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says Boston University’s buy is the largest active clean power purchase by any of the 126 colleges and universities in the EPA’s Green Power Partnership, a consortium of organizations that voluntarily commit to clean power.
“EPA applauds Boston University for its commitment to using green power and for taking a leadership position on the environment,” says James Critchfield, the Green Power Partnership’s program manager. BU, he says, “is helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provides an excellent example for other organizations to invest in environmental progress.”
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