
Bloomberg New Energy Finance recently conducted a report for Vestas Wind Systems which found that the top two corporate users of renewable energy are Intel and Kohl's.
According to the New Energy Finance’s Corporate Renewable Energy Index, in 2010, Intel bought 1,493 gigawatt-hours of electricity from green energy sources, and Kohl's purchased 1,418 gigawatt-hours.
Vestas commissioned the index with an intent to provide some transparency on how goods are produced. Renewable energy sources accounted for 12.1 percent of all the energy purchased by the 102 companies that were surveyed in the report.
The CEO of Vestas said that soon, a corporation's renewable energy usage will have the same importance as its safety record when it comes to forming partnerships with other corporations.
"There’s a lot of discussion going on about how green companies are and how much renewable energy they’re using," CEO Ditlev Engel said in a London interview, adding "this index can set a benchmark for how we measure these things."
According to the Environmental Leader, Whole Food Inc. may not have landed the top spot of renewable energy purchased, but in terms of usage, the organic grocery is number one, using 100 percent wind energy.

