...for Clean Power

and a Clean Planet

You can help clean up our air, water and food supply and reduce consumption of coal, oil, gas and uranium by purchasing renewable energy certificates (or "tags"). Tags make clean energy economically viable today.

A Green Tag from Maine Interfaith Power & Light pays for the clean air and other benefits of generating 1,000 kilowatt hours of electricity from wind and solar sources. Every Green Tag keeps 1,400 pounds of carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere.

Buying Green Tags

1.) Order Online at...

OR

2.) Order by mail...

Print an order form (will open in a new window):

You may also request an enrollment package be mailed to you by e-mailing Harry Brown, Executive Director at harry@meipl.org or by calling 721-0444.

Please note: if you would like your Green Tag gift certificates

to arrive by Christmas, we must receive your order form and check by December 14th.

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How Do Green Tags Work?

When you buy Green Tags, you are making a tax-deductible donation to put more clean power into an electrical grid in the United States, forcing polluting plants to cut back their output.

You (or your honoree, if you buy as a gift) will receive an attractive, personalized certificate acknowledging your donation. In addition, you will receive a report identifying which facility generated the electricity represented by your Green Tags. The cost of your Green Tags is fully tax deductible.

Here's how Green Tags help create good jobs, protect our environment, improve our health, and secure our energy independence:

• Clean power generators invest in and build a wind or solar facility, creating good jobs in a sustainable industry.

• They sell their electricity at the market price and begin delivering electricity to the grid in their area.

• They also sell a certificate for every 1,000 kilowatt hours they deliver. Green Tags are based on these certificates.

• The revenue from selling electricity at market price plus revenue from the sale of Green Tags allows these green generators to stay in business, despite their higher operation costs.

• Each kilowatt hour that a green generator delivers displaces a kilowatt hour from other generators, many of which burn fossil fuel.

• By reducing the use of fossil fuel to generate electricity, Green Tags deliver cleaner air, a healthier environment and greater energy independence for our country.

Green Tags Facilities

Green Tags Price $20 per 1,000 kWh tag 2 cents per kilowatt hour

• Not interested in Green Tags, but still want to buy clean power? Enroll online for

Maine Clean Power or Maine Clean Power Plus

• Want to understand the difference between Green Tags and Green Supply? Please see our

comparison chart.

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