Sony DADC joins EPA's Green Power Partnership
By Wendy Wilson -- Video Business, 4/20/2009
April 20 | Sony DADC is purchasing a significant amount of its power from renewable sources, joining the ranks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Green Power Partnership.
The disc replicator, with U.S. manufacturing facilities in Terre Haute, Ind., and Pitman, N.J., is buying more than 83 million kilowatt-hours of green power each year—about 44% of its total energy use. Electricity obtained from wind, solar and geothermal sources are among those that qualify as green, generating no increase in carbon dioxide emissions.
Sony DADC’s green power buy is equal to eliminating the carbon emissions of 11,000 cars on the road or the electricity needed to power more than 8,000 homes in one year.
Sony DADC joins about 1,000 companies who currently belong to the EPA’s Green Power Partnership, a voluntary initiative encouraging businesses of all sizes, as well as governmental agencies and educational institutions, to buy electricity from green sources. The company’s commitment to purchasing power from renewable energy sources is part of a larger corporate initiative by Sony to reduce overall CO2 emissions by 7 percent by 2010, relative to the company’s levels in 2000.
The commitment to buying green power is the latest addition to a list of programs already in place at Sony DADC designed to make its operations more eco-friendly, including water recycling, controlling the use of chemicals and reducing overall energy usage.
