The sun lights the way for walkers and joggers on a footpath through Peterson Air Force Base east of Colorado Springs even at night.
Solar power also is at work warming a hangar on the flight line.
In fact, Peterson and Schriever Air Force Base, farther east, use an amount of renewable energy that equates to 29 million pounds of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change, not being produced. It�s equal to taking 270 cars off the road or planting 417 trees.
"We view renewable energy as the right thing to do, frankly, from an environmental and energy security perspective," Air Force Space Command civil engineer Col. Carlos Cruz-Gonzalez said.
Those local efforts helped the Air Force win recognition recently for its use of "green power."
For the third consecutive year, the Air Force led the Environmental Protection Agency's list of the top 10 federal government green-power purchasers.
Green power is electricity partially or entirely generated from clean resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro...read more
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