This Flash presentation features animated slides and a narrated voice-over.

Slide 1: Green Power Brochure Cover
Description: Opening slide features line drawings and the words "Green Power"

Slide 2: Photo Montage of Energy Sources
Description: This slide depicts conventional power sources including an image of an oil drill and refinery, an oil spill, coal mining, a power plant, and a coal barge. These images fade into a slide showing a sunny mountain lake scene upon which images of green power sources including a windmill farm, solar panels, and a geothermal geyser appear.
Narrator: Green power, or renewable energy, is electricity generated from a variety of naturally replenished sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, and landfill gas.

Slide 3: EPA - A Leader in Green Power
Description: Three energy related images (photovoltaic cells, power lines, and a landfill gas plant) along with five EPA facilities are featured in this slide. The five laboratories are Richmond, California, Golden, Colorado, Manchester and Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Narrator: In 1999, EPA was the first federal agency to obtain 100 percent green power for one of its own facilities, Region 9's Richmond, California laboratory. On a percentage basis, EPA is the federal leader in green power purchases. Our estimates show that we receive approximately 9 percent of our electric power from green sources. EPA, in partnership with the DOE and GSA, developed a mechanism for federal agencies to purchase green power. This helped create a viable market for green power and paved the way for other federal agencies to make green power purchases.

Slide 4: Delivery of Green Power to the Power Pool
Description: A truck filled with coal pulls up to a power plant and energy (represented by gold circles) is delivered over the power lines to buildings in the background. Coinciding with this energy generation smoke appears from the power plant. Then windmills appear on the landscape and start delivering power (represented by green circles) to the power lines as well, allowing more buildings to receive electricity (represented by lights turning on in the windows).
Narrator: Electric power is delivered to consumers through a regional power pool. The pool is supplied by a number of generating stations using natural gas, coal, oil, nuclear, and other conventional sources. Power users then obtain electricity from the power pool. Under this program, EPA contracts with a green power producer to deliver power to the pool. For example, in Cincinnati, our largest purchase, we contracted to have 15 million kilowatt hours of green power delivered to the pool each year. Cincinnati then uses the same amount of power from the pool. As you can see, the green power does not necessarily go to our facility.

Slide 5: Cost and Verification
Description: Base power costs are presented as a stack of dollar bills, upon which a smaller stack of bills (representing the 10 percent green power premium) is added. An arrow points from this new pile to a drawing of an electric grid. A man holding a clipboard looks up at the grid and down on his clipboard signifying third party certification.
Narrator: There is a moderate premium for green power, which is approximately 10 percent on a kilowatt-hour basis. In our contracts, we require certification by an impartial third party, which verifies that the green power is produced, delivered to the power pool, and not sold twice. We believe the cost of green power is offset by the environmental benefits associated with the avoided emissions.

Slide 6: Environmental Benefits of Green Power
Description: A picture of heavy highway traffic is slowly replaced by a highway picture with many less cars on the road.
Narrator: In FY 2002, EPA's green power purchases will produce carbon dioxed reductions that are equivalent to 2,900 fewer cars on the road.

Slide 7: Progress to Date and Looking to Tomorrow
Description: This slide has two components. The first is a chart showing the increasing percentage of EPA's green power purchases coinciding with a decrease in emissions. The second part of the slide is a map showing all the EPA facilities nationwide, and specifying which locations currently purchase green power, and which are scheduled to procure green power in the near future.
Narrator: With each procurement, EPA reduces the air emissions and environmental footprint associated with its facilities. After our initial purchase in Richmond, we purchased 100 percent green power for four more of our facilities: Golden, Colorado, Manchester, Washington, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, and Cincinnati, Ohio. We are currently working on green power purchases in Houston, Narragansett, and Fort Meade, with deliveries starting in October, 2002. When completed, our share of green power should to approximately 16 percent. Our goal for FY 2004 is to begin green power deliveries at our largest facility, Research Triangle Park. We will continue our efforts until all of our major facilities including our regional offices are receiving green power.

Slide 8: Environmental Scenes
Description: The final slide features a boy fishing as the background. On top of this image appears a picture of a sunrise, forest, wheat field, and cloud covered mountain.
Narrator: In closing, the environmental benefits of our green power purchase program are obvious: helping to reduce the effects of global climate change, ground level ozone, acid rain, and childhood asthma. In addition, by reducing power plant emissions and cutting greenhouse gases, this program supports the goals of the recently announced Clear Skies Initiative. Finally, our efforts have led us to become a founding partner and an active participate in the Office of Air and Radiation's green power Partnership. Looking to the future, we are working with EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and their Brownfield's initiative to establish and create green power parks at Brownfield sites nationwide.