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Sofitel Earns EPA Label; Saving 3% on Energy

DALLAS-Accor North America's Sofitel becomes the first hotel chain to qualify as an EPA Green Power Partner. The wind-energy plan covers nine existing hotels and future ones.

By Connie Gore | Updated on February 29, 2008

DALLAS-Accor North America’s long-time push to reduce its carbon footprint has earned recognition as the owner of the first hospitality chain to qualify as an EPA Green Power Partner. The Sofitel chain picked up its remaining points by signing a pact with a wind energy supplier.

The contract between Dallas-based Accor and Community Energy Inc. of Radnor, PA calls for 3% of annual electricity use at nine hotels to be derived from wind-powered sources, Robert Moore, senior vice president of technical services for Accor North America, tells GlobeSt.com. And, the pact includes future hotels too.

“This was being worked on for many, many moons. It took a long time to bring this to fruition,” Moore says. “What we’ve done is very pioneering. It’s a moral obligation as well. And obviously there’s a cost to this, but we’ve taken a moral stance.” He says wind power was selected because “it’s completely clean.”

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