Safeway Partners With EPA to Buy “Green” Energy

Pleasanton, Calif., Safeway announced it will purchase renewable energy to power its 270 fuel stations, 15 stores in San Francisco and corporate campuses in Pleasanton and Walnut Creek, Calif. The deal, arranged through with the Environmental Protection Agency, makes Safeway one of the largest buyers of green energy in the United States. The supermarket retailer has agreed to purchase 78 million kilowatt hours of electricity generated from wind energy.