Green Geeks, LLC is buying more than 48,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which is enough green power to cover 300 percent of the organizations that purchased electricity use. Green Geeks, LLC is purchasing renewable energy certificates (RECs) from Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a leading national provider of green energy products.

Trey Gardner, CEO of Geeks Green explained, “This is a great honor and we are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We’ve always been diligent and have worked hard to make Green Geeks company more eco friendly it could be. When EPA contact us we are pleased that companies like ours could get support from the EPA through its Green Power Partner Program. look forward to working with EPA and its program to promote the cause of more companies to go green. ”

Green Power is electricity generated from environmentally preferable renewable resources such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, biomass, low-impact hydropower. These resources generate electricity with a net zero increase in carbon dioxide emissions, while offering a superior environmental profile compared to traditional sources of power generation. The green power purchases also support the development of new sources of renewable energy generation nationwide.

Kathleen Hogan, Director of the Division for Climate Protection Partnerships in the EPA stated, “EPA is pleased to welcome the Green Geeks Green Power Partnership. We applaud their commitment to use green energy to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

According to the U.S. EPA, Green Geek green power purchase of more than 48,000 (kWh) is equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO2) over 6 passenger vehicles per year, or is the equivalent of electricity needed to power more than 5 average American homes annually.

Green Geeks LLC provides shared, reseller and dedicated server web hosting and domain name registration and domain management. Green Geeks has offices in Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles and service clients in over 40 countries worldwide. Since the start of operations of Green Geeks has been an eco-friendly web host with 300% green energy purchases.

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is a nonprofit enterprise that engages market forces and ingenuity to help people tackle our most pressing energy and water problems . Through the sales of carbon offsets, BEF supports the development of renewable energy and education and watershed restoration in the long term. Bonneville Environmental Foundation recently established a subsidiary, BEF Renewable Incorporated, to initiate innovative projects associated with renewable energy and tax-exempt entities such as schools, cities, tribal governments and other nonprofit, to help them develop energy projects renewable.

The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that encourages organizations to buy green power as a way to reduce environmental impacts associated with purchased electricity use. The Association currently has more than 1,100 partner organizations voluntarily purchasing billions of kilowatt hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium enterprises, local, state and federal governments and colleges and universities.

To learn more about the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, please visit: b-e-f.org.

For additional information about The Green Power Partnership, please visit: www.epa.gov/greenpower.

To learn more about Green Geeks, please visit: www.GreenGeeks.com.