• The EPA's Green Power Partnership has hailed the City of Houston as the No. 1 municipal purchaser of green power in the nation and as a crucial leader in the alternative energy trend.
• Texas is one of the top three states in the country in wind power potential.
• In 2003, Texas installed more wind power than the entire United States had in any other year 
• According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Houston has the third highest number in the country of energy-efficient commercial buildings.  

Wind

• 32 percent of the City of Houston's total electricity load is purchased from wind energy.
• Texas is the top producer of wind energy according to the American Wind EnergyAssociation’s Second-Quarter Market Report.
• Texas’ cumulative wind power capacity total now stands at 2,370 megawatts – enough to power more than 600,000 average American homes.
• Texas has leased to Galveston Offshore Wind an 11,000-acre region of the Gulf of
  Mexico, seven miles off Galveston Island, for gigantic wind turbines that could eventually power 40,000 homes and generate millions of dollars for state schools. The project marks a new era of pollution-free energy production for the Gulf.

• Houston Biodiesel educates about and promotes the use of clean, renewable,
  domestically produced biodiesel in all diesel engines. The company also sells high quality biodiesel that conforms to ASTM specifications and invites consumers to make their own biodiesel in their "BIG" batch reactor. 
• TexCom, Inc. is building and will operate a new 30-million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant at the LBC Houston LP bulk liquids terminal in Seabrook, Texas. TexCom plans to construct the multi-million dollar plant that will convert virgin soybean oil into biodiesel and utilize existing on-site storage capacity and other terminal facilities under a long-term lease from LBC.

Hybrid Technology

• Mayor Bill White announced in April 2005 plans to convert a substantial portion of the
  City’s fleet of cars, pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles to hybrids by the year 2010.
• The City fleet comprises more than 11,000 vehicles of which 3,554 are the civilian, light-duty, “non-specialty” fleet.

• The City of Houston and Mayor Bill White have been recognized by Automotive Fleet Magazine as one of the nation’s top Green Fleet Leaders and will receive the first annual “Green Fleet Leadership” Award at the 2009 Green Fleet Conference.

• The City of Houston’s green fleet accomplishments include:
  
  Replacing 683 passenger vehicles with hybrids through the Mayor’s Hybrid Initiative, as well as scheduled replacement of 34 heavy-duty vehicles with hybrid and clean-diesel vehicles.
  
  Surpassing Houston’s own emissions reduction plan by achieving total 2009 fleet greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 90,864 tons per year (tpy), 6.1% below Houston’s 2010 Emissions Reduction Plan goal of 96,761 tpy and 7.8% below the 2010 business-as-usual projection (Of note: overall GHG emissions have increased by only 3% despite the fleet increasing in size by 12%). 
  
  Reducing fleet fuel consumption from 9.4 million gallons in 2005 to 8.8 million gallons in 2009.

Ethanol

• Houston’s first ethanol (E85) fuel dispensing facility opened in October 2004 at
  NASA's Johnson Space Center. JSC is now the fifth NASA center to add ethanol fueling capability. JSC employees are now mandated to use E85 in the 25 Flexible Fuel Vehicles in the GSA fleet assigned for employee use, if their official business takes them within a 50-mile radius of JSC.

Hydrogen Fuel Cells

• The Woodlands-based Center for Fuel Cell Research and Applications is a multisponsor
  research consortium working to advance hydrogen and fuel cell technologies from lab to market. The Center offers two programs - one providing surveillance of early-stage technologies and the other providing operational verification of products emerging from late-stage developers and manufacturers.

Solar

• The City of Houston and NRG Energy are developing the largest solar farm in Texas. Using the latest photovoltaic (PV) technology, the proposed project will have the capacity to generate approximately 10 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable solar power which would be purchased by the city under a long-term power purchase agreement. Ten megawatts is roughly 6.25% of the City's annual consumption and is equivalent to the energy required to power over 7,000 homes.
  
  The EPA currently lists Houston as the country's No. 1 municipal purchaser of renewable energy.
  
  The Solar initiative is consistent with the City's prior renewable purchases and the ongoing weatherization and efficiency efforts that mark the City's commitment to reducing its impact on the environment while continuing to meet its ongoing energy needs.  
  
  The facility, as proposed, would come online in the second quarter of 2010 and would create approximately 100 jobs during construction. The project would supply the City with both sustainable power and Renewable Energy Credits which would be needed under a number of the environmental initiatives being proposed by Congress.