Tennessee Valley Authority
Green Power Switch®
2010 marks two important anniversaries: the 40th Earth Day and the 10th year of Green Power Switch.
What’s the impact of those ten years?
After enlisting 12 distributors and about 3,000 customers its first year, Green Power Switch enters its 10th season with 114 distributors and nearly 12,000 residential and more than 500 commercial buyers.
- Green Power Switch participants have purchased nearly 500,000 MWh of renewable energy.
- By doing that, they’ve kept nearly 900 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions out of our atmosphere.
- That’s equivalent to keeping 85,000 passenger vehicles off the road for a year.
- It’s also equal to planting over 138,000 acres of trees in the Tennessee Valley region.
The Switch Is On
TVA and participating local public power companies, working with input from the environmental community, have created a program called Green Power Switch® to produce electricity from renewable sources and add it to TVA's power mix. Read more.
Green Power Switch is proud to be
an official Green-e certified program. Green-e is a renewable electricity
certification program administrated by the Center for Resource Solutions. Learn
more here.
Additional Information
Solar energy tax credit summaries (PDF, 902KB)
Wind energy tax credit summaries (PDF, 892KB)
