First it won the heart of hardware enthusiasts with the Core 2 Duo, and now it is targeting environmentalists. Intel Corporation plans to purchase more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates as part of a multi-faceted approach to reduce its impact on the environment, making the company the single-largest corporate purchaser of green power in the United States (according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). The company said it hoped the record-setting purchase would help stimulate the market for green power, which should lead to additional generating capacity and ultimately, lower costs.
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