Contact: Troy Hawks
NSAA Communications
(720) 963-4215
thawks@nsaa.org

UPDATED 5.13.08

Green Power Program Fact Sheet

Green Power Program: NSAA encourages all of it members to invest in green energy and is facilitating a group purchase of green power for its members under the umbrella of the Sustainable Slopes and Keep Winter Cool initiatives. The program was launched in an effort to grow the number of ski resorts and ski industry supplier companies buying green power for their operations.

Resorts Offsetting All or Part of Energy Use with Renewable Energy: 64

States Represented: 18

Resort Offsetting 100 % of Energy Use: 34

States Represented: 11

Calif: Alpine Meadows, Boreal Mountain, Soda Springs, Sugar Bowl; Colo: Arapahoe Basin, Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Buttermilk, Copper Mountain, Crested Butte, Keystone, Snowmass, Vail Mountain, Wolf Creek; Maine: Shawnee Peak, Sugarloaf/USA, Sunday River; Minn.: Buck Hill; Mont. : Blue Sky, Moonlight Basin; N.H.: Mount Sunapee; Nev: Heavenly, Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort; Ore.: Mt. Ashland, Mt. Bachelor; Vt.: Killington, Middlebury Ski Bowl, Okemo, Stratton Mountain; Wyo.: Grand Targhee, Jackson Hole

Quantified Results: All tolled, these 34 resorts are purchasing 343,459,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of green energy and their purchases result in the avoidance of 497,270,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2). This is the equivalent of planting nearly 19 million trees or avoiding more than 196,000 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco.

Resorts Powered by Green Energy (less than 100%): 29

States Represented: 12

Alaska: Alyeska Resort; Calif: Kirkwood, Northstar-at-Tahoe; Colo.: Powderhorn, Steamboat, Telluride, Winter Park; Idaho: Schwietzer; Mich: Crystal Mountain; N.H.: Attitash; N.M. Pajarito Mountain Ski Area; N.Y.: Gore Mountain, Holiday Valley, Hunter, White Face, Windham; Ore.: Ski Anthony Lakes, Cooper Spur, Mount Bachelor, Mount Hood Meadows, Timberline; Utah: Alta, The Canyons, Deer Valley, Park City, Sundance; Vt.: Smugglers Notch, Sugarbush; Wash.: Mission Ridge, Stevens Pass, Summit at Snoqualmie.

NSAA Supplier Companies Offsetting Energy Use:

NSAA Supplier members BEWI Productions Inc., Waltham, Mass., producer of consumer ski shows, and Ski Area Management Magazine, Woodbury, Ct., are offsetting 100 percent of their energy use by purchasing wind power.

Industry Associations Offsetting Energy Use:

NSAA, the National Ski Patrol (NSP), the Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI) are also offsetting 100 percent of their electricity use for their headquarters and warehouse building located in Lakewood, Colo. Also, NSAA offset 100 percent of the emissions associated with the 2008 National Convention and Tradeshow held in May at the Hilton San Francisco, Calif.

 THE NATIONAL SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION, LOCATED IN LAKEWOOD, COLO., IS A TRADE ASSOCIATION FORMED IN 1962 FOR SKI AREA OWNERS AND OPERATORS NATIONWIDE.

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