http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsNAPR1474.htmWhole Foods Market is to triple the number of stores with solar panels, extending its commitment to offset 100 percent of its use of non-renewable electricity and investing in energy reduction opportunities while retrofitting existing stores with energy efficient lighting, equipment and mechanical components.
"Whole Foods Market is thrilled to set the environmental bar even higher by pioneering the development and deployment of alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power," said Lee Matecko, Whole Foods Market Global Vice President of Construction and Store Development. "We are also reducing energy consumption in new and existing stores with some exciting innovative technologies that are making a real difference."
Whole Foods Market recently contracted to add solar to more than 20 locations; including existing installations, solar will be brought to the rooftops of more than 30 of the Company's stores nationwide.
With an installation at its Berkeley, Calif., store in 2002, the Company became the first retailer to introduce solar power as its primary lighting source.
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