Killington Resort to Offset 100 Percent of Power Usage Through Renewable Energy Credits

Killington Resort, the better ski and snowboard resort in the Northeast, continues to aggrandize aloft its on-going ecology initiatives by announcement today it will account 100 percent of its electric use through renewable activity sources alpha in June 2008. Killington consistently had an advancing ecology program, including decay baptize conservation, snowmaking ability and abutment of bounded transportation The anniversary activity burning of a ski resort is substantial, and we accept a albatross to abate the carbon brand of our resorts to advice bottle their aboriginal settings for ancestors to come While this about-face to renewable activity will be airy to the guest, skiers and riders can adore accord of apperception alive that all of Killington’s electricity is now advancing from 100 percent renewable sources. We’re demography measures in our accustomed business practices to abate our carbon footprint All of these projects adjust with our mission account which is to beat chump expectations, be innovative, assisting and environmentally responsible.

Killington, VT (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 8, 2008 -- Killington Resort, the better ski and snowboard resort in the Northeast, continues to aggrandize aloft its on-going ecology initiatives by announcement today it will account 100 percent of its electric use through renewable activity sources alpha in June 2008.

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Killington Resort will acquirement 26,199,909 kWh of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) annually, which will annihilate added than 17,800 bags of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere - an aggregate agnate to emissions produced by the anniversary electricity burning of about 2,079 boilerplate homes. Combined with Killington’s advancing ecology initiatives, including Freeaire accession on the resort’s applicant coolers, Compact Florescent Bulb (CFLs) replacement, and broadcast use of Low Energy snow guns, the acquirement of RECs marks the resort’s connected charge to acceptable an industry baton in ecology stewardship.

”Killington consistently had an advancing ecology program, including decay baptize conservation, snowmaking ability and abutment of bounded transportation,” said Chris Nyberg, Killington’s admiral and accepted manager. “However, back the resort was purchased by Powdr Corp and SP Land endure year, we accept been able to admit abounding new programs that accede altitude change and our acceptance that we can become a added acceptable business. Our contempo initiatives, including resort-wide co-mingled recycling, Freeaire technology, and now purchasing of Renewable Energy Credits will added abate our all-embracing carbon footprint.”

All told, Killington’s ancestor aggregation Powdr Corp has committed to purchasing a absolute of 49,306,224 kWh of Renewable Energy Credits at all seven of its resorts for the advancing year.

“The anniversary activity burning of a ski resort is substantial, and we accept a albatross to abate the carbon brand of our resorts to advice bottle their aboriginal settings for ancestors to come,” said Brent Giles, administrator of ecology address for Killington’s ancestor company, Powdr Corp. “While this about-face to renewable activity will be airy to the guest, skiers and riders can adore accord of apperception alive that all of Killington’s electricity is now advancing from 100 percent renewable sources.”

Powdr Corp will plan with Boulder, Colorado-based Renewable Choice Energy as its renewable activity provider. Renewable Choice is an award-winning renewable activity and carbon account provider of Green-e certified sources such as wind, biomass and baby hydro. The EPA estimates that Powdr Corp's acquirement will abstain over 85 actor pounds of C02 emissions annually, which is according to removing 8,539 commuter cars from the alley or powering 6,175 boilerplate American homes for a year. Killington’s charge of RECs is the better of any resort in the East.

Last summer, Killington Resort invested $50,000 into retrofitting six of the resort’s applicant coolers with a Freeaire Refrigeration System, which curtains into the greatest antecedent of algidity anytime created: winter. The Freeaire arrangement uses algid alfresco air and new top ability evaporator fan motors to arctic applicant coolers. Since the accession and through April 1, 2008 the Freeaire affairs has adored 55,200 kWh of electricity and alone added than 3.7 bags of CO2 emissions.

Killington aswell accomplished a resort-wide co-mingled recycling affairs this season, which is forecasted to annihilate 113 bags of solid decay annually. In addition, added than 600 CFLs accept been installed about the resort.

In addition, Killington bigger snowmaking operations and bargain its all-embracing carbon brand for the 2007-08 division with a 10-percent access in its Low Energy snow gun arsenal. Additional electric outlets were aswell installed on-mountain for added use of energy-efficient fan accoutrements throughout abject and high-traffic areas. The added use of Low Energy snow accoutrements has bargain Killington’s agent burning by added than 30 percent and electricity by 25 percent over the accomplished three years.

“We’re demography measures in our accustomed business practices to abate our carbon footprint,” said Nyberg. “All of these projects adjust with our mission account which is to beat chump expectations, be innovative, assisting and environmentally responsible.”

More advice on Killington’s advancing ecology initiatives is available here.

About Killington Resort
The better ski and snowboard resort in eastern North America, Killington appearance assorted terrain, an all-embracing lift network, the a lot of all-encompassing snowmaking arrangement in the apple and abundant off-mountain activities, including après, dining, arcade and abode options. www.Killington.com.

About Powdr Corp
Powdr Corp is one of the arch abundance resort owners in the United States. Headquartered in Park City, Utah, Powdr Corp currently owns and operates seven resorts including Park City Mountain Resort in Park City, Utah, Killington Resort and Pico Mountain in Killington, Vermont, Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon, Boreal Resort and Soda Springs Resort, both at Donner Summit, California, and Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort alfresco of Las Vegas, Nevada.

About Renewable Choice Energy
Boulder, Colo.-based Renewable Choice Energy (www.renewablechoice.com) is the award-winning, full-service provider of renewable activity and carbon offsets. Founded in 2001, Renewable Choice’s audience cover Whole Foods Market, Vail Resorts, hundreds of businesses and organizations, and bags of individuals above the country. In 2006, Renewable Choice aggregate the Beacon Prize with Whole Foods Market for their attack to brainwash barter about wind power. Renewable Choice is the arch renewable activity supplier to blooming architecture projects nationwide.

CONTACT:
Tom Horrocks
Communications Manager
(802) 422-6237
thorrocks@killington.com

Top 5 Simple Ways to be Green on Earth Day

GreenEnergyChoice.com gives tips on how to advice accession awareness.

Houston, TX -- GreenEnergyChoice.com, a arch blooming activity website alms barter options to about-face to renewable activity and acquirement Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), suggests 5 simple means for consumers to be blooming on Earth Day.

Earth Day, a day area humans accomplish to advice accession ecology acquaintance about the apple to advance a healthy, acceptable planet, is acclaimed today, Tuesday, April 22. Earth Day is an accident acclaimed accompanying about the apple by humans of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities -- added than a bisected billion humans participate every year. One of the best means to abutment this accomplishment is to become involved.

GreenEnergyChoice offers 5 simple account on how you too can be green and accord to the success of Earth Day:
 

Minimize time spent in the car. An simple way to advice abate those adverse emissions is to leave the car at home for abbreviate trips. Also, accumulation errands into one big cruise is added amiable than authoritative several abate trips from home and back. Carpooling to and from plan is addition way to accord to the ambiance as well. Unplug non-essential appliances. Many home accessories use low levels of activity even if they are angry off. Unplugging these accessories absolutely or active them into a ability band and axis the band off are both means to advice abate activity consumption. Scrape that dish! Instead of rinsing a bowl afore agreement it in the dishwasher, abrading it is just as able and doesn't decay any water. Go blooming on grocery bags. An innumerable aggregate of artificial grocery accoutrements are disposed of every individual day -- and the recycle amount is acutely low. Saving and re-using artificial grocery accoutrements or accepting a appropriate bolt bag just for arcade are both abundant means to be green. Renewable Energy Credits (RECs): When a chump purchases an REC they ensure that about on the grid, anyone is accepting the allowances of blooming activity instead of fossil-fuel power. Doing so can advice advance renewable activity to the beginning of consumption, and helps abate carbon emissions.
For a added abiding option, one of the simplest means to accomplish a aberration in the ambiance is to acquirement a renewable activity plan. GreenEnergyChoice barter can use the chargeless online acclimation arrangement to analysis renewable activity affairs -- with the electricity that admiral their homes accepting produced anon from assets such as wind, water, solar and more. Customers in areas that do not action wind activity amount affairs can still analysis added apple-pie and affordable renewable activity options from several acclaimed and trusted activity companies or acquirement RECs to account a allocation or all of the carbon emissions from their anniversary activity usage. Either of these options helps consumers participate in extenuative the ambiance for added than just one day out of the year.

About GreenEnergyChoice:
GreenEnergyChoice offers barter a abode to acquisition environmentally-friendly electricity or accustomed gas providers that action renewable activity in Texas. GreenEnergyChoice is a chargeless online account committed to authoritative it simple for barter civic to assure the ambiance through their purchasing decisions. GreenEnergyChoice is a affiliate of the WhiteFence network.

EnerTech Environmental Joins International Team to Construct the First Carbon Neutral City in Abu Dhabi

EnerTech Environmental, Inc. appear today that it has active an Expression of Interest to body a SlurryCarb™ affirmation ability at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. Masdar City will be the world's aboriginal zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, absolutely powered by renewable energy. This is an befalling to advertise the SlurryCarb™ action to the Middle East and plan with the all-embracing association to body a city-limits that absolutely embodies acceptable active and working It showcases the SlurryCarb™ action as the best accessible biosolids technology if it comes to sustainability, renewable energy, and the abridgement of greenhouse gases. Investing in EnerTech Environmental is a key allotment of the all-embracing Masdar ambition Their avant-garde technology is the affectionate of acute apple-pie technology that has the abeyant to adapt the way developers accede approaching projects.

Atlanta, Georgia -- EnerTech Environmental, Inc. appear today that it has active an Expression of Interest to body a SlurryCarb™ affirmation ability at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. Masdar City will be the world's aboriginal zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city, absolutely powered by renewable energy.

EnerTech's SlurryCarb™ affirmation ability will action biosolids (sewage sludge) produced from the abiding barrio erected during Masdar City's aboriginal appearance as able-bodied as from the acclimation for the several thousand workers architecture Masdar City amid 2008 and 2016. Biosolids from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, the workers' accommodation, and the address of Masdar will be adapted into renewable E-fuel, a deposit ammunition replacement. The affirmation ability is the aboriginal footfall appear installing a abiding SlurryCarb™ ability in the city.

"This is an befalling to advertise the SlurryCarb™ action to the Middle East and plan with the all-embracing association to body a city-limits that absolutely embodies acceptable active and working," said Kevin Bolin, EnerTech CEO. "It showcases the SlurryCarb™ action as the best accessible biosolids technology if it comes to sustainability, renewable energy, and the abridgement of greenhouse gases."

Masdar is Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar investment in the development and commercialization of beat and avant-garde technologies in renewable, addition and acceptable energies as able-bodied as blooming design. By applying calibration and leveraging Abu Dhabi's low-cost, tax-free accomplishment base, businesses will adore cogent aggressive advantages, acceptance them to attempt internationally and accommodate cogent about-face to the Abu Dhabi economy. On February 9, 2008, Masdar bankrupt arena for Masdar City.

The city-limits will serve as a all-around archetypal for designing and amalgam environmentally acceptable absolute acreage development. A city-limits for the future, Masdar City will advantage the a lot of avant-garde technologies about the apple in amiable reuse, acceptable practices, and activity efficiency. The city-limits is accepting complete in the affection of Abu Dhabi.

EnerTech Environmental is allotment of a baddest accumulation of arch all-around companies that accept been invested in by Masdar through the Masdar Clean Tech Fund. The Clean Tech Fund focuses on the development and commercialization of technologies in renewable energy, activity efficiency, carbon administration and monetization, baptize usage, and desalination.

One of the key objectives of the Fund is to advanced the acceptance and development of renewable and addition activity technologies.

"Investing in EnerTech Environmental is a key allotment of the all-embracing Masdar ambition," said Alex O'Cinneide, Partner at Masdar Clean Tech Fund. "Their avant-garde technology is the affectionate of acute apple-pie technology that has the abeyant to adapt the way developers accede approaching projects."

About Masdar
Masdar is Abu Dhabi's multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar investment in the development and commercialization of beat and avant-garde technologies in renewable, addition and acceptable energies as able-bodied as blooming design. By applying calibration and leveraging Abu Dhabi's low-cost, tax-free accomplishment base, businesses will adore cogent aggressive advantages, acceptance them to attempt internationally and accommodate cogent about-face to the Abu Dhabi economy. On February 9, 2008, Masdar bankrupt arena for Masdar City, the world's aboriginal zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city.

To apprentice added about Masdar, and Masdar City, amuse appointment www.masdaruae.com.

About EnerTech Environmental
EnerTech Environmental, Inc. is a renewable activity aggregation committed to the aegis of accessible bloom and the environment. The aggregation provides answers to the problems of acceptable decay administration methods and accompanying creates renewable activity - in a way that makes bread-and-butter sense. EnerTech's patented SlurryCarb™ action abundantly and economically converts biosolids (sewage sludge) and added top damp wastes into a high-grade, renewable fuel, with cogent amount accumulation over addition methods. EnerTech's accumulated address are amid in Atlanta, Georgia.

For added information, amuse appointment www.enertech.com.

Citizens Take Action for Solar and Wind Energy

Call-in action today, July 23rd, to burden Congress on solar and wind tax credits. With alone a amount of canicule larboard afore the summer recess, now is acceptable the endure adventitious to get these acute renewable activity incentives anesthetized afore they expire Over 94% of Americans abutment incentives and investment in renewable activity and hundreds of bags of jobs at accident with activity prices at an best high. The leaders and associates of Congress in both parties who abort to abutment renewable activity will face aborigine questions as to why such a simple area of legislation could not pass. Renew Solar and Wind Tax Incentives Now! Now is the time to abutment renewable activity solutions. It is accomplished time for Congress to canyon laws to accomplish this. Congress have to be pressured to do what is all-important to move us advanced and abroad from the old bedraggled activity of the past.

Washington, DC -- RenewPac today appear a civic call-in action to abutment the face-lifting of the solar and wind tax incentives. These incentives, accepted as Investment Tax Credits for solar and Production Tax Credits for wind activity will expire at the end of 2008. The abridgement of action in assembly is paralyzing investment in the renewable activity area and is aggressive hundreds of bags of American blooming jobs. Congress has attempted to renew the credits eleven times this year, declining anniversary time.

"With alone a amount of canicule larboard afore the summer recess, now is acceptable the endure adventitious to get these acute renewable activity incentives anesthetized afore they expire," said Steve Boyd of RenewPAC. "Over 94% of Americans abutment incentives and investment in renewable activity and hundreds of bags of jobs at accident with activity prices at an best high. The leaders and associates of Congress in both parties who abort to abutment renewable activity will face aborigine questions as to why such a simple area of legislation could not pass."

This call-in action will crop abode today Wednesday, July 23rd and ambition key senators and associates of assembly who are affecting on this vote. RenewPac has helped accumulate abutment from anxious citizens about the U.S. by application online amusing networks such as Facebook and has aggregate over 1700 supporters in beneath again two weeks.

Elizabeth Clark, a affiliate of the Facebook group, "Renew Solar and Wind Tax Incentives Now!" states, "Now is the time to abutment renewable activity solutions. It is accomplished time for Congress to canyon laws to accomplish this. Congress have to be pressured to do what is all-important to move us advanced and abroad from the old bedraggled activity of the past."

Citizens can appointment www.renewpac.us to accompany the call-in action. The facebook accumulation is at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20568327141.

About RenewPac:
RenewPac is an industry-wide political action board for the renewable activity and apple-pie technology sector. www.renewpac.us
Contact: Steve Boyd steve(at)renewpac.us Tel: (202)-441-0442

RINSTAR Registry Provides Solution to EPA's RFS Ruling

Little accepted credits play big role in America's activity future. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson denied Texas Governor Perry's appeal to abandon the Nation's renewable ammunition accepted based on abridgement of bread-and-butter harm. The RINSTAR Renewable Fuel Registry provides a reliable antecedent of the credits bare for acquiescence with the standard. We accept facilitated 252,094 trades through the ages of July Based aloft our day to day observations of the renewable ammunition business, we see the RIN acclaim arena an added important role in America's activity future.

Taos, New Mexico -- Fundamental to today's cardinal by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson abstinent Governor Rick Perry's RFS abandonment appeal is the use of a little accepted acclaim alleged a RIN - Renewable Identification Number. These credits are acclimated by answerable parties, such as refiners and importers of gasoline, to authenticate acquiescence with the rule. RINs are submitted to EPA by the oil companies anniversary year as their affidavit of affair the RFS mandate.

Clayton McMartin, admiral of the Clean Fuels Clearinghouse, issued a prediction weeks ago, on July 16, 2008, advertence that the abandonment would be denied. The anticipation was based aloft a accouterment begin aural RFS regulations which provides anniversary alone oil aggregation with the adeptness to backpack over a arrears of RINs from one year to the next. A accouterment that lessens the bread-and-butter impact, area abbreviate appellation accumulation becomes an issue, and one of the important apparatus in EPA's adeptness to administer bread-and-butter harm.

Early adaptors to the RIN affairs participate on the Nation's renewable ammunition anthology accepted as RINSTAR™. In accession to accouterment a accessible accumulation of RINs, the autonomous anthology enables proactive validation of the credits. Companies are able to analysis to see if the credits are legitimate, which brings the accomplished akin of aplomb to the trade, acceptable acquiescence with the law.

The anthology has been operational back the RFS went into effect, September 1, 2007, and now interacts with over 450 companies throughout the accumulation alternation anniversary day. "We accept facilitated 252,094 trades through the ages of July", said Clayton McMartin, admiral of the Clean Fuels Clearinghouse and agent for the Renewable Fuel Registry. "Based aloft our day to day observations of the renewable ammunition business, we see the RIN acclaim arena an added important role in America's activity future."

Rising gasoline prices, circuitous by political pressure, are consistent in an added appeal for added renewable fuel, agreement the RIN acclaim in an important role for America's activity future. Even admitting the boilerplate American motorist will acceptable never apprehend about a RIN, this new activity acclaim is abiding to become a analytical basic for stabilizing a accessible antecedent of addition fuels for abounding years to come.

The Clean Fuels Clearinghouse is an absolute aggregation focused on amount able accomplishing of motor ammunition regulations. The aggregation is abnormally positioned to accommodate a arrangement advanced renewable ammunition validation and accomplishing platform. For added information, appointment them on the web at www.CleanFuelsClearinghouse.com or RINSTAR at www.RINregister.com

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