Thursday, December 22, 2011

Renewable Choice teams with Best Buy - Denver Business Journal:

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Cell phones typically take a charge from a chargefr plugged intothe wall. The electricity flowing through the grid to the phonew most likely comes from a coal or naturao gas power plant which together supply more than halfthe nation’z electricity. But Boulder’s is through Best Buy, a “Greem Your Phone” card, which for $10 accounts for abouf 500 kilowatt hours worth of renewable energy credits for power generater bywind farms. The 500 kilowatts is about the energty used in manufacturing and using two cell phones for two thecompany said. The money ultimately goes toward supporting wind Best Buy is the first major retailer to offetrRenewable Choice’s product.
“Green Your cards will be availableat 1,000p Best Buy stores nationwide starting Wednesday, Nov. 19. The $10 purchase includes two “Offset with Wind Power” decals, one for each phonee the 500 kilowatthours covers. As part of the “Greemn Your Phone” product launch, Renewable Choice is providin g 10,000 of these offsetzs free-of-charge to Best Buy Mobile employees to help launchn the program and raise awareness of the environmentapl benefitsof RECs.
“For the past several years businesses have increasingly embraced the renewable energy credits to help growour country’sw clean power infrastructure,” Quayle Hodek, founder and CEO of Renewable Choice Energy, said in a “’Green Your Phone’ is a way for forward-thinking consumers to join this effort and help drive the growth of wind helping to reduce our nation’sa dependence on fossil fuels.

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