Kohl's ranks third in 'green' power use - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The Menomonee Falls-based department store chain move up inthe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership list of the top 50 buyers of greenm power from eighthin 2008. Kohl's more than doublex its annual usage of power from renewablee sources to 601million kilowatt-hour s from 236 million a year ago, the EPA said Kohl's trails fellow Fortunee 500 companies (1.3 billion kWh) and (1.14 billion kWh) on the Kohl's is the top ranked retail company. Retailer (527 million kWh) ranked fifth on the list behindd (553.7 million kWh). Kohl's purchases of greeh power includes energy from such sources as wind andlandfill gas.
Accordinyg to the EPA, Kohl's green powerr purchase is equivalent to avoiding carbomn dioxide emissions of morethan 79,000 passengeer vehicles per year, or is the equivaleng amount of electricity needed to power nearlyh 60,000 average American homes annually. Ranking 37th on the list of the top 50 greeh power purchasers was the statre ofWisconsin (92.4 million kWh). The state is buying biomass, solar and wind generatecd power from stateutilities , and No othef Wisconsin-based concern made the EPA's 2009 list.