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US power supplier Constellation Energy has signed a first-of-its-kind federal contract with the US Department of State to provide green energy to federal and state facilities.

The energy savings agreement with Constellation is expected to spur wind and solar development in Pennsylvania and New Jersey states under a 20-year contract with the federal government.
The State Department and other federal government facilities covered by the contract, including part of the White House campus, expect to reduce greenhouse gas emissions up to 35 per cent by the end of 2012 and increasingly more throughout the term of the agreement.
‘This innovative agreement serves as a model for federal agency energy management with a cost-effective, public-private effort that will create jobs through the development of clean energy resources,’ said Mayo Shattuck, chairman, president and CEO of Constellation Energy.
The agreement is a long-term power purchase agreement for an estimated 120,000MWh of energy to be provided annually to the State Department and other federal government facilities.
Constellation Energy said it plans to construct a $50m solar project on a 40-acre site in New Jersey by mid-2012.
The solar panels for the project will be constructed by Unicor, the federal prison industries service designed to skill inmates and produce market-priced goods for the federal government.
Constellation Energy has also committed to purchase power produced by a wind facility that will be developed in Pennsylvania under a long-term power purchase agreement.
Constellation Energy will supply certified renewable energy certificates to the State Department sourced from renewable energy facilities in the US, the company said.
The agreement was awarded to the power company in response to the agency’s competitive request for proposals last fall for innovative solutions to meet its clean-energy objectives.