DALLAS, TEXAS (September 18, 2024)—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Green Power Leadership Award winners for 2024, honoring Signature Aviation of Irving, Texas as one of four leading organizations in EPA’s Green Power Partnership. The company meets 100% of its electricity needs through green power. The 2024 winners also include Microsoft Corporation, MilliporeSigma, and Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. These organizations are recognized for pushing boundaries in the green power market and demonstrating projects that can be replicated by a range of entities across the economy. They exemplify the partnership’s goals of driving innovative procurement strategies, enabling green power access, and accelerating the transition to a pollution-free electricity sector.

“The 2024 Green Power Leadership Award winners have made outstanding strides in helping to encourage clean, renewable electricity in this country,” said Paul Gunning, Director of the Office of Atmospheric Protection. “Each year, we see increasingly impactful and sophisticated strategies from these leaders. EPA commends their commitment to powering their operations while curbing their emissions, protecting public health and the environment, and growing the green power market.”

Signature Aviation is a support services company for business and private aviation that is being recognized for its tiered green power development strategy incorporating on- and off-site renewable energy development, ambitious electrification initiatives, and leadership and engagement with industry peers. Signature Aviation meets 100% of its electricity needs through a mixed portfolio that prioritizes generation geographically close to its operational use. The aviation ground services company has maintained 100% green power usage while implementing an ambitious strategy to transition ground service equipment from diesel and gasoline to electric power, with 1,160 units transitioned to electric or low-emitting technologies to date. Signature Aviation also leads its peers in green energy procurement as the first fixed-base operator to achieve 100% green power procurement.

For more than 20 years, the Green Power Leadership Awards have recognized hundreds of organizations for their exceptional achievements and leadership in the green power marketplace. This year's recipients are using nearly 14 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually, enough to power approximately 1.3 million average American homes for a year. The award winners stand out through their engagement within their respective spheres of influence by deploying strategies such as maximizing onsite wind and solar generation, creating toolkits to engage peers and suppliers in the green power market, and pioneering power purchase agreement models to deliver carbon-free power along with equity benefits.

Green power is electricity generated from renewable resources such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, eligible biomass, and low-impact hydro. These high-quality renewable sources produce green power with little to zero air emissions or impact on the environment or human health. EPA’s Green Power Partners drive demand for investment in renewable energy in the U.S., influencing suppliers to switch to green power and accelerating development of these resources towards a clean energy future.

Background

The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase green power use among U.S. organizations with a goal to advance the American market for green power development while reducing air emissions associated with electricity use. In 2022 alone, nearly 700 partners voluntarily used almost 95 billion kWh of green power annually under this partnership. Partners include various leading organizations such as Fortune 500® companies; small- and medium-sized businesses; local, state, and federal governments; colleges; and universities.

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