By Stephanie Funk and Elizabeth Hoffman
As we’ve written about before here, the College Football Playoff (and many associated events) have a comprehensive green initiative to limit its footprint as much as possible.
“The ‘greening’ of the national championship game is one of our top priorities,” says Jack Groh, who leads the CFP sustainability efforts. “We’re reducing waste, offsetting energy usage and planting trees out of respect for this beautiful Arizona environment.”
As part of the initiative, the CFP has teamed up with our own Salt River Project. SRP is providing green energy for tonight’s championship battle between Alabama and Clemson at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale.
“Providing green energy to the game is a great opportunity to showcase SRP’s commitment to renewable energy,” said Tom Cooper, SRP director of Resource Planning and Development. “It helps increase awareness of the pivotal role renewable energy plays in an energy portfolio designed to deliver affordable, reliable power to SRP customers.”
One hundred percent of the energy used in tonight’s game will come from sustainable energy sources, including solar, wind and geothermal energy, hydro power as well as energy-efficiency measures. The SRP Board has a goal to use these sustainable energy sources to meet 20 percent of its retail electricity requirements by the year 2020, and is already ahead of schedule at 14 percent.
