Where does EverGreen Options green power come from?
Tacoma Power buys environmentally-friendly Renewable Energy Certificates – Green Tags from the Bonneville Power Administration. These Green Tags are derived from new wind generation projects located in Washington and Oregon. Green Tags represent the environmental attributes of qualifying renewable energy resources. For example, a unit of wind-generated energy from the Stateline Project is both electricity delivered to the power grid, and the environmental benefit of this electricity production – zero pollution and greenhouse gas impacts. A Green Tag is this environmental benefit resulting from 1000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) or 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of qualified renewable electricity generation. Green tag purchases directly support the development of new certified renewable electricity generation in the Pacific Northwest.
