Whole Foods Makes A Big Green Statement

Whole Foods Market announced today that they have purchased 776 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy credits from wind farms.  According to Whole Foods this represents the largest purchase of renewable energy credits in history by a United States retailer.

The majority of the REC purchase(90%) will be applied to the Panther Creek wind farm owned by E.ON Climate and Renewables located in Big Spring, Texas.  These funds will increase funding to the Panther Creek project as well as fund new projects by EC&R.

This purchase represents 100% of the company’s electricity use in all North American facilities.  According to Whole Foods Market the purchase of this number of REC’s will reduce emissions by 868 million pounds of carbon dioxide or the equivalent to taking 72,000 cars off the road or planting approximately 3.6 million mature trees.