The EPA Green Power Community Challenge Comes to Creve Coeur

In December of 2011, the Creve Coeur City Council voted unanimously to approve initiating an EPA Green Power Community Challenge via a joint effort with Ameren Missouri’s Pure Power and Microgrid Energy. The Challenge focus is to encourage local businesses, residents and organizations to support new sources of renewable energy and reduce the Creve Coeur communityʼs carbon footprint.

The Challenge will kickoff in April and will last one year. If, by April 2013, the City is using green power in amounts that meet the targets set by the EPA, then Creve Coeur will become only the second EPA GPC in Missouri!

What is the Plan to Achieve the Goal?

A planning committee is overseeing the Challenge, which will include outreach to residents and businesses to seek participation, as well as various events and educational efforts. This will be an exciting opportunity for Creve Coeur to advance the goals of the ClimateClimate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the "average weather," or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands of years. The classical period is three decades, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation, and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. Action Plan approved in 2010. It will also be a great achievement that will help set Creve Coeur apart as a Midwest leader in sustainability.

Stay Up to Date on the Challenge

Be added to the City enewsletter, where are the latest on the Challenge will be communicated, and check back with this site, as additional content will be added throughout the Challenge.  Please help spread the word – tell your friends, neighbors, colleagues.

What You Can Do

There are two ways that businesses and residents can help Creve Coeur achieve this goal, listed below.  Use the form to the right to get started, or you can go to the websites listed below and learn more about these options.

1. Purchase Renewable Energy CreditsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated.) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated. are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated. (RECsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated.)
   Enroll in Pure Power or purchase RECsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated. from any green-e certified RECRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated. supplier. Enrolling in Pure Power means paying a bit more for power each month, thereby supporting the development of wind power and other forms of renewable energy through the purchase of certified renewable energy certificates (RECsRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated.).  Each RECRenewable Energy Certificates (RECs) represent the technology and environmental attributes of electricity generated from renewable sources. RECs are usually sold in 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) units. A certificate can be sold separately from the underlying generic electricity with which it is associated. represents the green power attributes (including the Green House Gas Emission reduction) of 1 MWh of new renewable energy produced onto our Missouri grid.
   To Enroll in Pure Power visit www.mypurepower.com
2. Install a Solar Energy System
   Systems can be installed at either a Creve Coeur business or residence, and install can be by Microgrid Energy, or any other solar installer.  As part of this Challenge, Microgrid is offering a Zero Upfront Cost Option for participating residents and businesses.
   For more information visit www.microgridenergy.com/gpc