Green Energy

We have partnered with the top green web host to assure you that your business will go online and remain online using 100% green energy. Here you can learn more about green energy and how we use it for our web hosting. You can browse around this section to learn more about green energy and hosting. You can also visit our host direct at HostPapa.com.

How Does it Work?

Our web host certainly doesn't have a wind turbine on the roof of their data center! Sure, it would be a neat thing to have, but that is not the case. After an energy audit by an outside provider to calculate their total electrical energy consumption from traditional sources, our host purchased "green energy tags" or certificates from a certified green energy supplier. That supplier calculates the total energy consumption of our operation and uses their suppliers of green energy to pump in 100% equivalent energy back into the power grid. This effectively cuts down on the carbon dioxide-producing (CO2) energy that we normally would have required from non-green energy sources.

Our host has actually calculated that, within the scope of one year of their initial purchase of green energy, they have removed roughly 4,000 kg of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases affecting our environment. That's close to removing two cars from the highway for a 12-month period!

By purchasing the green energy certificates, they have completely offset the amount of greenhouse gas production by their current electricity providers with certified wind and solar-power providers in the United States and Canada.

Why Does HostPapa Do It?

Simply put, they did it because of their commitment to corporate responsibility and to the environment. Ultimately, they wanted to be the green leader in web hosting. The servers and equipment they use run 24 hours per day and consume a great deal of electricity. So they said: "Why should we burden the world just because we require that electricity to light up our servers? If we need the electricity for our operation, let's buy it from clean-energy sources and contribute positively to our environment."

What is Green Energy?

Green Tags are created when wind power or other renewable energy is substituted for traditional power. The result is a shift away from our dependence on burning fossil fuel to produce electricity. Using clean renewable energy is friendly to the environment and reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Green Tags represent the real savings in carbon dioxide and other pollutants that occur when green power replaces burning fossil fuel.

Renewable energy is still a little more expensive than buying traditional power, so Green Tags are purchased in addition to the electricity that you are now using. Buying Green Tags has the same effect as buying green power. Both replace fossil fuel generators with clean renewables, and both have exactly the same environmental benefits.

The purchase of Green Tags - which are also called renewable energy certificates - supports the production of renewable energy in the United States and Canada. Participants continue to receive a separate electricity bill from that provided by their utility company. For every unit of renewable energy generated, equivalent amounts of Green Tags (renewable certificates) are produced. Green Tags support new renewable electricity generation, which offsets the environmental effects of burning coal, gas, and other fossil fuels in the region where the renewable generator is located, and helps shift the overall energy mix toward more renewable resources. Also, Green Tags help build a market for renewable energy, reduce global climate change, and may have other environmental benefits such as reducing regional air pollution.

The source of our 100% renewable Green Tag energy that ultimately supply our servers comes from a multiple of sources, including:

• Condon Wind Facility (Gilliam County, OR)
• Foote Creek Wind Facility (Carbon County, WY)
• Klondike Wind Facility (Sherman County, OR)
• Northwest Small Wind Co-op (WA, MT)
• Northwest Solar Co-op (OR, WA)
• Portland Brewery Blocks (Portland, OR)
• Solar Ashland (Ashland, OR)
• Stateline Wind Facility (Walla Walla County, WA; Umatilla County, OR)
• Summerview Wind Facility (Pincher Creek, Alberta, Canada)
• Tillamook Animal Waste to Energy (Tillamook, OR)
• Washington State School for the Blind (Vancouver, WA)
• White Bluffs/Hanford (White Bluffs, WA)

The above facilities replace our energy consumption by supplying the power grid with our equivalent energy requirements of 100% green energy from wind and solar energy providers.

Our Host is proud of the fact that their company is making the world a cleaner and healthier place. All of their equipment including servers, data centers, power allotment, and even our office computers and laptops are powered by 100% renewable and environmentally-friendly energy. They intend to continue investing in these alternative energy sources, even with the rapid growth and expansion of their company and related equipment.

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