DWP Recognizes Businesses and Large Non-Profit Customers With Green Power Corporate Responsibility Awards

Business Wire, July 27, 1999

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1999--

Consumer Activist Ralph Nader Supports DWP Green Power Program;

Episcopal Church Makes New Commitment for

Green Power in Los Angeles Diocese

Sixteen of the Department of Water and Power's largest customers were recognized Monday, July 26, for leading others as the first group to sign on for the Green Power for a Green L.A. program.

Featured speaker at the awards event was famed consumer activist Ralph Nader, who indicated his support for the DWP Green Power for a Green L.A. program. Nader said he supports the DWP program because it seeks to bring new clean renewable resources to the city, provides energy efficiency products and services including compact fluorescent light bulbs to lower energy usage, and is also open to low income customers.

Bishop Frederick Borsch, representing the Episcopal Church in the Los Angeles Diocese, said that his denomination was participating in the green power effort in keeping with the theme, "The Stewardship of All Creation in the Next Century."

In a letter to DWP, Bishop Borsch said the Diocese's Cathedral Center, headquarters of the six-county area with 150 churches, would sign on for green power. He said the Diocese would work with DWP to sign up its other churches in Los Angeles

In addition, other leaders honoring the companies and large non-profit customers included Councilwoman Ruth Galanter, Councilman Michael Feuer, DWP Commissioners Judy Miller and Dominick Rubalcava and DWP General Manager David Freeman.

The large customers honored at the event ranged from the J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles Dodgers and Robinsons-May Department Stores to Coast Converters, United Signature Foods, Friedman Bag Company, Promenade Owner's Association and Promenade West Owners Association.

Additional organizations recognized included the Church of Scientology, Park LaBrea Apartments, DirecTV, Occidental College and Bunker Hill Tower Condominium Association. Three health organizations were honored: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and White Memorial Medical Center.

The Green Power for a Green L.A. program is DWP's flagship effort to encourage its customers, including residential, commercial, industrial and low income, to volunteer to sign up for green power so that the utility will over a number of years convert its power mix from conventional polluting sources such as coal to clean new resources such as solar, wind and geothermal.

The program is considered unique because it seeks to develop new resources and is tied directly with energy efficiency products and services. DWP seeks also to help create jobs by serving as a catalyst to bring manufacturers of green power services and energy efficiency products to Los Angeles.