NYU, Ivies Earn 'Greenest' School Title

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2007 -- New York University purchased 118 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy between 2006 and 2007, earning it the greenest-school title in the EPA's annual College & University Green Power Challenge.

Among collegiate conferences, the Ivy League schools beat out beat out 15 other collegiate groups in its power purchases.

"EPA hopes this year's competition inspires schools around the nation to participate in the 2007-2008 EPA College & University Green Power Challenge," said acting assistant administrator Bill Wehrum. "Buying green power is a great way to demonstrate that what's good for the environment is also good for higher education."

Since April 2006, the EPA's Green Power Partnership has ranked conferences by the quantity of green power purchased by their respective colleges and universities. These conferences must have schools that qualify as EPA Green Power Partners and make a collective green power purchase of at least 10 million kWh conference-wide in order to be eligible for the challenge.

The 33 schools and 16 conferences taking part in this year's challenge are buying more than 750 million kWh of green power. The EPA estimates that this amount of green power is equal to the electricity needed to power more than 60,000 average American homes each year.

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