Partnership Agreement

The EPA Green Power Partnership encourages the voluntary use of green power to reduce the 

risk of climate change. Partners benefit from the use of green power, while supporting the 

development of new, renewable energy in the United States.

By joining EPA’s Green Power Partnership, 

Partners commit to: 

• Use green power that meets or exceeds Partnership requirements within six months of signing this Partnership Agreement. 

• Report on green power use annually. 

• Use the Green Power Partner mark in a manner that is consistent with Partner mark use guidelines, available at www.epa.

gov/greenpower/documents/gpp_guidedoc_mark.pdf. 

In return, EPA commits to: 

• Provide public recognition. 

• Provide procurement and communications assistance, as requested by Partner. 

• Provide a brief description of the Partner’s green power commitment on the Green Power Partnership Web site. 

General Terms: 

• Either party can terminate this agreement at any time without 

prior notification or penalties and with no further obligation. EPA 

will not comment publicly regarding the withdrawal of Partners. 

• Partner agrees that the activities it undertakes connected with 

this voluntary agreement are not intended to provide services 

to the federal government and that the Partner will not seek 

compensation from a federal agency. 

• Partner agrees that it will not claim or imply that its participation in the Green Power Partnership constitutes EPA approval or 

endorsement of anything other than its participation in the program and will not make statements or imply that EPA endorses 

the purchase or sale of the Partner’s products and services or 

the views of the Partner organization. 

• EPA may post information about the Partner’s green power use 

publicly, but will honor all requests to keep the Partner’s green 

power data and/or electricity use confidential. 

• EPA may periodically revise program benchmark levels or other 

eligibility requirements. 

OMB Control Number 2060-0578

Your Organization’s Baseload

If your annual electricity use is...

Green Power Partner

Requirements

You must, at a minimum, use this much 

green power within six months of joining 

Green Power Leadership Club 

Requirements

You must, at a minimum, use this much 

green power for your entire organization

≥ 100,000,001 kWh 2% of your use 20% of your use

10,000,001 - 100,000,000 kWh 3% of your use 30% of your use

1,000,001 - 10,000,000 kWh 6% of your use 60% of your use

≤ 1,000,000 kWh 10% of your use Not Applicable

Key Green Power Partnership Requirements

• Eligible green power includes electricity generated from solar, wind, 

geothermal, biogas, and certain forms of biomass and hydropower.

• Green power must be sourced from eligible U.S.-based generation 

facilities.

• Requirement can be met with any combination of green power 

products (i.e., utility product, RECs, or on-site generation).

• Partner purchases must be voluntary and incremental to the 

renewable electricity included in the standard electricity service.

• Requirements must be entirely met with power from “new” 

renewable facilities (i.e., installed after 1/1/1997).

• Partners may join organization-wide (U.S. operations only), at 

the facility-level, or a logical aggregation of facilities less than 

organization-wide.

More details are available in the Partnership Requirements Document, http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/documents/gpp_partnership_reqs.pdf

PLEASE FAX PAGE 2 OF PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT TO (202) 343-2208 OR E-MAIL TO collison.blaine@epa.gov (must be signed and scanned).
Authorizing Official:

On behalf of , the undersigned understands and agrees to the terms of the Partnership.

Electricity and Green Power Information

Annual electricity use of participating entity: kWh / year

Already using green power? o Yes o No

(Name of organization or entity)

Primary Contact: 

Name: 

Title: 

Address: 

City: State: Zip: 

Phone: 

E-mail: 

On-site Users of Green Power 

Green power generation: kWh /year* 

Resource type: o biogas o biomass o geothermal 

o small hydro o solar o wind 

Year installed: 

Installed capacity: kW

Location of on-site generation (ZIP code): 

Installation ownership: o self o other 

If other, by whom?

* EPA will only count as green power kWh generated from on-site installations for which the participating entity owns the rights to the renewable energy credits (RECs).

Public Relations Contact (optional): 

Name: 

Title: 

Address: 

City: State: Zip: 

Phone: 

E-mail: 

Title: 

Date: 

Signature: _________________________________________________

Print Name: 

PLEASE FAX PAGE 2 OF PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT TO (202) 343-2208 OR E-MAIL TO collison.blaine@epa.gov (must be signed and scanned).

Purchasers of Green Power 

Green power purchase: kWh /year

Contract details

Start date: End date (if applicable):

Green power resource mix 

% biogas % biomass % geothermal

% small hydro % solar % wind

Product certification (third party): 

o Green-e o Not certified o Other

If other, by whom?

Name of green power provider(s):

Green power product name(s): 

If yes, please provide the following information: 

Motivating factors behind your green power use (optional) (check all that apply)

o support renewable energy development

o reduce carbon footprint

o demonstrate environmental leadership and improve image

o other 

o EPA recognition & EPA procurement assistance 

o cost stability

o LEED certification

The government estimates the average time needed to fill out this form is 4.9 hours and welcomes suggestions for reducing this level of effort. Send comments 

(referencing OMB control number) to the Director, Collection Strategies Division, U.S. EPA (2822T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20460.

EPA-430-K-05-013

www.epa.gov/greenpower

April 2010