U.S. EPA Ranks Hormel Foods in Top 100 for Green Power Use
Hormel Foods Corporation, a global branded food company has been named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Fortune 500 list of the largest green power users from the Green Power Partnership (GPP).
Hormel Foods ranks No. 57 on the list.
The company recently joined the EPA's Green Power Partnership and is offsetting more than 53 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, which represents 7% of its operations' total power needs. The company's choice to use green power helps advance the voluntary market for green power, as well as the development of those sources.
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase green power use among U.S. organizations to advance the American market for green power and development of those sources as a way to reduce air pollution and other environmental impacts associated with electricity use. In 2020, the Partnership had more than 700 Partners voluntarily using nearly 70 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually.