Amicalola Electric Membership Corporation

Amicalola EMC and Green Power

The Story of Green Power –

Several years ago, a group of member-owned electric cooperatives in Georgia joined together for the purpose of developing and marketing electricity from cleaner, greener Georgia sources. This most- environmentally friendly power offers EMC’s power that will enable them to contribute to a cleaner environment. Now, many years and a great deal of research and development later, Green Power is reality. Renewable energy is produced from sources like low-impact hydropower, solar, wind and biomass, including landfill gas. Power generated from these resources creates less waste and pollution than energy produced from most conventional sources such as coal.

What is Green Power?

The first Green Power project began with biomass electricity from three North and Middle Georgia landfills. The otherwise wasted methane contained in landfill gas is valuable for electricity production; plus recovery and reuse also helps prevent methane from entering the atmosphere and contributing to smog and global warming. In use since the late 1970s, this method of producing biomass electricity is one of the most mature and successful in the green power field. Supporting this project has an environmental benefit equivalent to any one of the following:

• Taking 84,000 cars off the road

• Planting 114,000 acres of forest

• Reducing the use of coal by 1,890 railcar loads

• Decreasing the use of oil by 900,000 barrels a year

What Does This Mean to You?

July 28, 2005 Amicalola EMC joined forces with twenty-eight other Electric Membership Corporations in Georgia to work together to distribute Green Power to our consumers.

 Amicalola EMC supports Green power on behalf of you, our customer, making it part of the overall power mix on the electric system – helping to make the environment a little cleaner and greener for you and your family.

 For more information about Green Power visit their website at www.greenpoweremc.com .

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