Renewable Energy for Business
Meet Sustainable Energy Goals with Choose Green Muscatine
Choose Green Muscatine
Choose Green Muscatine is a renewable energy program from Muscatine Power and Water. Through it, YOU have the buying power to choose. You can purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to cover all or a portion of the electricity used by your company. By participating in Choose Green, you’re choosing to be a part of sustainable changes by increasing the demand for renewable energy.
Obstacles that businesses looking at renewable energy solutions may face
- Upfront material and installation costs
- Additional structural improvements, equipment repairs and ongoing maintenance
- Potentially “negative” curb appeal
- Building orientation not conducive, or neighboring structures/landscaping interfering with solar installations
- Valuable real estate needed for installations
For Small Businesses (Commercial I) Customers:
Choose Green Muscatine offers a completely “hands-off” approach for Commercial I customers to meet renewable energy or sustainability goals. There’s nothing to build, maintain, or set-up on site to be a part of this program. Choose Green Muscatine participants help ensure we’re bringing new, green energy into our energy pool with no up-front costs and a low unit cost.
Wind turbines at our South Fork Wind Farm provide Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for every 1,000 kWh of renewable energy produced. Each REC is serialized, independently recorded, and tracked through Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System (M-RETS).
You can choose the electricity used for a portion or all of your organization’s electrical consumption when deciding how many RECs you would like to purchase. We will retire an equivalent number of RECs based on your organization’s participation in the Choose Green Muscatine program.
A certificate indicating the number of RECs that were retired on your company’s behalf will be provided to verify your support and achievement in sustaining renewable energy. The RECs are yours to promote as you see fit and can no longer be claimed or marketed by anyone else, including MPW.
For Commercial II and Industrial I and II Business Customers
For large customers who want to make a direct investment in renewable energy and have sustainable business goals, our Choose Green Business program allows you to directly purchase renewable energy and receive Renewable Energy Credits (REC) from the MPW renewable portfolio**. Industrial and Commercial II customers have expressed interest in additional local renewable energy options to satisfy their corporate sustainability goals. In fact, several are already purchasing RECs generated by our South Fork Wind Farm.
Through ongoing power supply studies, completed by industry experts, MPW staff and leadership have developed our Powering the Future strategy to set a bold new path for local power generation, and the utility’s critical position in the national electric grid. Since receiving Notice to Proceed from the Iowa Utilities Commission for MPW’s new EcoGen 10 unit and assuming ownership for Muscatine Solar 1 (MS1), MPW’s teams have transitioned into project execution and the first delivery of solar panels for MS1 are now onsite at our Grandview Avenue Wellfield, where MS1 will be developed. Contracting activities for substructures and pipeline development are underway for EcoGen 10 at our Power Plant site. Construction for both projects is slated to begin this summer. These projects mark the next chapter of local generation for MPW. By combining a highly efficient combined heat and power (CHP), EcoGen 10, unit with clean solar energy, MPW is diversifying fuel sources, lowering environmental impact, and strengthening reliability.
How Fast We Grow Depends On You
Whether it’s your full plant or a targeted product line, only you can determine how much of your annual electrical consumption you’d like to dedicate to local renewable energy. Availability is limited for this program but participation from local industries is necessary to realize this project.
View our brochure for more information and details on our Choose Green Business Program for Commercial II and Industrial I and II customers, or contact Paul Burback at 563-262-3423.
Be a Renewable Energy Leader!
Choose Green is an easy, affordable and completely customizable solution to help you meet renewable energy and sustainability goals through renewable energy certificates. When your company participates, you become a progressive, renewable energy leader and reduce the demand for non-renewable forms of energy. Choose Green helps conserve more natural resources and reduces environmental impact.
**REC’s available for purchase will be based on MPW’s production forecasts. MPW offers no production guarantees. Customer’s actual REC volume will be determined based on their pro-rated share of MPW facility’s annual production.
Pricing will be the average of the bid and offer price for the upcoming year with a 10% discount applied. Annual REC purchases will appear on the customer’s monthly bill noting the volume and cost of renewable energy.
RECs will be retired as received by MPW; a 3-month delay between REC production and receipt of REC’s is not uncommon.
Renewable Energy Certificates are nonrefundable.
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