Kohl’s Department Stores will be named Green Power Partner of the Year during the annual Green Power Leadership Awards held Monday in Atlanta.
The Green Power Leadership Awards recognize the actions of organizations, programs and individuals that significantly advance the development of green power resources in on-site generation, green power purchase and Partner of the Year.
This is the third consecutive year Kohl’s will receive a Green Power Leadership Award, earning recognition for green power purchase in 2007 and on-site generation in 2008. This is Kohl’s first time receiving the Green Power Partner of the Year Award, which recognizes four EPA Green Power Partners annually who distinguish themselves through their green power purchases, leadership, overall strategy and impact on the green power market.
Kohl’s ranks second in retail, fourth overall and fourth among Fortune 500 companies on the EPA’s list of top Green Power Purchasers with a 2009 green power purchase of 600,990,000 kilowatt hours, which is enough to meet 50 percent of the company’s purchased electricity use. Kohl’s ranks ninth on EPA’s list of Green Power Partners that generate and consume the most green power on-site with 19,126,000 kilowatt hours of on-site green power usage from solar.
