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March 22, 2007
Matt Clouse, Director, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership, 3-22-07
Matt Clouse is Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership. This voluntary, climate protection program seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by building demand for renewable power. EPA’s growing numbers of Green Power Partners are purchasing more than seven billion kilowatt-hours of renewable power annually. This electricity would be equivalent to roughly ten billion pounds of CO2 if generated by conventional means.
Matt joined the EPA in late 2000 to begin developing the Green Power Partnership, which was launched in July 2001. Almost six years later, the Partnership has over 650 partners including 310 organizations or facilities buying green power for 100% of their electricity usage, 83 government agencies, 70 colleges & universities, and 39 Fortune 500 companies.
The broader voluntary market has grown with EPA’s focus on building demand for green power among corporate, governmental and institutional electricity consumers. Now non-residential sales drive market growth and the market supports over 3000 MW of new renewable power capacity.
Matt’s career in environmental and energy policy began in Oregon at an environmental lab and includes five years at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and two years at the University of Delaware where he received a Masters of Energy And Environmental Policy and led teams tasked with developing Delaware’s climate change action plan and the state’s energy plan.
Posted by David Lemberg at March 22, 2007 08:55 AM Return to SCIENCE AND SOCIETY home page