GREENING YOUR
BUSINESS
Personal, financial, moral,
environmental?
All of the above?
Why does Park City Mountain
Resort care?
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Climate change will reduce the annual
amount of snowfall at Park City.
Climate change will shorten the ski season.
Climate change will reduce the sustainable
snow pack and limit the area that is snow
covered to higher elevations.
Effects will be more severe further in the
future.
If greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, the
severity of effects can be reduced.
Green House Gasses
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Water vapor
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Ozone
CFC’s
CARBON FOOTPRINT
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If we are serious about trying to slow
down the negative effects of climate
change, then the calculation and constant
monitoring of our carbon footprint is
essential.
Some of the causes of a “Carbon
Footprint”?
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Electricity
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Delivered to PCMR = 2.022 lbs CO2/kWh
Call your local power company
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Request your meter reading history report
Motor Fuels
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gas & diesel = 22.8 lbs CO2/gal
B-20 = 16 lbs CO2/gal
E85 = 2 lbs CO2/gal
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Heating Fuels
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Natural gas = 127 lbs CO2/dth
Propane = 14 lbs CO2/gal
Coal = 2 tons CO2/ton
Production of foods and goods we use or
sell.
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2.2 lbs CO2 for every 5 plastic bags or 2
plastic bottles
20 lbs CO2 for every cheeseburger
An Individuals Footprint
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6000 kWh = 12132 lbs CO2
12000 miles @ 20 mpg = 600 gal = 13608 lbs
CO2
63 dth = 8001 lbs CO2
Groceries once a week, 3 plastic bags each
time = 69 lbs CO2
2 bottled water per day = 803 lbs CO2
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Total 34,613 lbs CO2
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17.3 tons
Breakdown of PCMR’s Carbon
Footprint?
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Electricity = 86.47%
Diesel Fuel = 6.56%
Natural Gas = 4.19%
Gasoline = 1.7%
Propane = 1.08%
Basic carbon footprint for PCMR
2007/2008
more than
15,000 tons of CO2
released into the atmosphere
ACTION ITEM
TAKE ADVANTAGE
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Initiatives and Incentives
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Schedule an audit
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Rocky Mountain Power Energy FinAnswer
Complete the initiative
After the initiative is commissioned receive the
incentive in the form of a check made out to
your company.
Financial Results
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Quick totals of results from the following
lists of individual initiatives
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Kwh’s saved 2,659,057
Annual savings $115,062
Cost of projects $681,258
Incentive received $180,980
Simple ROI 4.35 years**
Environmental Results
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From electricity savings
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Use of bio diesel
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2,723 tons CO2 avoided
598 tons CO2 avoided
Recycling (did not go to the landfill)
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40,000 pounds of cardboard
20,000 pounds of commingled
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(plastics, tin, papers, aluminum)
ACTION ITEM
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
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Purchase renewable energy credits (REC’s)
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Pros
Supports the renewable energy industry
 We get the credit to lower our footprint
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Cons
Scams, make sure of third party certification
 Buying our way out
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 Park
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City Mountain Resort purchases
13,847,742 kWh’s alternative energy
Avoiding 9,347 tons of CO2
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tons of CO2 is equivalent to
1,853 cars taken off the road for one year or
974,921 gallons of gas not consumed or
Planting 77,673 trees
TAKE ACTION
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www.utahcleanenergy.org
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Sign up to receive Utah Clean Energy’s e-newsletters
and action alerts and learn about things such as:
Western Climate Initiative
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Western governors and Canadian premiers are crafting
measures for regional climate protection
Federal Clean Energy Initiatives
Tax Credit Bills
The Good News
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The choices we make today will help slow
the negative effects of GHG’s for future
generations.
The initiative we take today in our
businesses will influence the choices we
and our co-workers make in our private
lives.
The Good News
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There is a positive financial ROI.
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There is a positive environmental ROI
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Our customers expect us to be good
stewards of the environment and will
support us when we are.