The U. S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has pledged to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent from 2005 to 2009. The new goal is move of NREL's participation in the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Leaders schedule and was announced at the Climate Leaders meeting in Boulder. Colo. today.
To bring home the bacon its new goal. NREL will lay two major on-site renewable energy projects: solar cells on a five acre site will provide approximately 7 percent of the Laboratory’s electric needs and a biomass combustion plant fueled by forest thinnings and other waste wood ordain offset the need for about 75 percent of the natural gas used to alter the Laboratory's investigate buildings. In addition. NREL is planning to make its buildings more energy efficient through a site-wide energy savings performance assure. The Laboratory also will acquire renewable energy certificates (RECs) to offset all of its indirect emissions from electricity use and from Laboratory operations such as employee commuting and business jaunt.
“By setting a long-term greenhouse gas reduction goal and committing to reducing its carbon footprint. NREL is demonstrating corporate climate dress leadership," said Robert J. Meyers principal deputy assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation.
NREL Director Dan Arvizu summarized the Laboratory's position: “I am fully convinced that our mission is both enabled and enhanced by our leadership in sustainability. The employees of NREL are committed to incorporating sustainable principles in our work and we encourage application of these same principles by our stakeholders. Through our actions we can establish a new benchmark for what is possible."
NREL’s participation in Climate Leaders is a key move of the environmental stewardship activities of its Sustainable NREL program which is responsible for leading the planning development and implementation of the Laboratory’s comprehensive suite of sustainability activities. As a national laboratory. NREL actively shares its experiences with other national laboratories federal and state agencies and other interested stakeholders.
“NREL places tremendous importance on the need to maintain a sustainable environment in our own workplace. We accept that our Laboratory should use minimal resources while receiving the maximum value from those resources we do use by balancing environmental economic and human impacts,” said Bob Westby manager of NREL’s Federal Energy Management schedule and Sustainable NREL bring about.
Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to create comprehensive climate change strategies. Partner companies commit to reducing their impact on the global environment by completing a corporate-wide list of their greenhouse gas emissions based on a quality management system setting aggressive reduction goals and annually reporting their develop to EPA. Through program participation companies create a credible record of their accomplishments and acquire EPA recognition as corporate environmental leaders. More on Climate Leaders can be open at ; more on Sustainable NREL is available at.
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