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February 22, 2012

Hartford Fire, Ahold top EPA green-power users

Hartford Fire Insurance Co. and grocery chain Ahold USA made the federal Environmental Protection Agency's list of top purchasers of energy that doesn't contribute to harmful greenhouse gases.

The EPA also recognized Boston's State Street Corp. as a positive contributor to the Green Power Partnership.

The partnership works with more than 1,300 organizations who voluntarily use more than 21 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use.

Green power is electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydro.

Hartford Fire's green power mix currently consists of 10 million kilowatt hours of Renewable Energy Certificates and 188,000 kilowatt hours of onsite solar generation, representing more than 6 percent of the insurer's electric demand, EPA says.

That is the equivalent, the agency says, of eliminating carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity use of more than 800 average American homes and 1,000 automobiles a year.

Hartford Fire is a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Ahold, parent of Stop & Shop, Peapod, Giant Food and Martin's Food Markets on the eastern seaboard, uses more than 149 million kilowatt hours of green power and 560,000 kilowatt hours of onsite solar. It has cut CO2 emissions equivalent to more than 20,000 automobiles and nearly 13,000 homes a year.

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