Utility Green Tariffs: A New Way for Fortune 500 Companies to Buy Clean Energy

Renewable Energy World: Good clean energy news blew in from Michigan in March: General Motors and Switch signed up as the first customers to buy wind energy through Consumers Energy’s new green tariff. The new Cross Winds Energy Park II in Tuscola County will supply enough wind energy to match demand at both General Motor’s Flint Metal Center and Flint Engine Operations, as well as at Switch’s 1.8 million-square-foot data center campus in Grand Rapids.

Dane Parker, General Motors Vice President of Sustainable Workplaces, commented that the green tariff will help General Motors “meet its commitment to source 100 percent renewable energy at all global operations by 2050, while reducing emissions in our Michigan communities.”

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