Greenest Cities

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Greenest Cities

Last September, the Environmental Protection Agency kicked off its national year-long Green Power Community Challenge in an effort to urge communities across the country to use renewable energy. To be eligible, the community must use green power in amounts that meet the program’s purchase requirements and the local government must also encourage citizens and local businesses to buy or produce green power. In this challenge, Green Power Communities across the nation are going head-to-head to see who can be the greenest of them all. This is measured two ways: one list ranks the communities that use the most kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power and the other ranks the communities that have the highest green power percentage. The winners, who will be announced in September 2011, will receive special recognition from the EPA. Here’s a list of who’s ahead based on amount of usage as of March 2011.

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