Choose 100% Renewable Energy and Join a Winning Team
If you reside in Palo Alto, you can sign up for the nation's top-ranked renewable energy program, PaloAltoGreen. Join over 21% of Palo Altans by choosing 100% wind and solar energy, renewable energy from some of the cleanest sources. To learn about business participation, visit our business page.
Make a Difference
For the average Palo Alto household, participation in PaloAltoGreen reduces CO2 emissions by 9500 lbs. a year. You'd have to stop driving your car for 9 months to have the same impact on CO2 emissions. With PaloAltoGreen, it's easy to make a difference.
Buy Green Energy, Build Green Energy
Your participation makes the air cleaner by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also supports the growth of renewable energy facilities and clean tech jobs. To ensure your enrollment contributes to this growth, we purchase Green-e Energy certified renewable energy exclusively from new projects. PaloAltoGreen supply is 2.5% solar from Palo Alto and 97.5% wind from western states (specific state information is sent to all customers yearly). For more information on the facilities you support, see below.
Easy on the Pocket
PaloAltoGreen is available to all CPAU electric customers and costs only 1.5 cents extra per kWh. For the average household, this adds $9.75 to the monthly utility bill. Small businesses and residents pay an additional 1.5 cents per kWh. Larger businesses can choose to participate in increments of $15 per month for each 1,000 kWh block. For more information on large business (E4 & E7 rate class) participation in PaloAltoGreen, visit our business page.
Save Money
In addition to helping the environment, your enrollment can save you money. All residential customers are a part of the PaloAltoGreen Team, a discount program for Palo Alto businesses and residents participating in PaloAltoGreen. The PaloAltoGreen Team promotes local businesses that choose renewable energy and rewards residents that choose it as well. Just show a participating business the Team Card you receive in your welcome kit and get a discount.
Is your business interested in becoming a PaloAltoGreen Team Team member? Sign up here, call 650-329-2241, or email paloaltogreen@cityofpaloalto.org.
Simple to Enroll
Enrolling is simple, voluntary, and reversible at any time. Just fill out the enrollment form or call 650-329-2161. If you're a large businesses (E4 & E7 rate classes), visit our business page to learn more.
Have Questions?
Email us at paloaltogreen@cityofpaloalto.org, call 650-329-2161, or stop by the 2nd floor Customer Service Center at City Hall. If you have questions about the methodology behind our environmental calculations, visit our methodology page. To see the Power Content Label for CPAU and PaloAltoGreen, click here
PaloAltoGreen Renewable Energy Facilities
Through PaloAltoGreen, you support these wildlife-friendly wind and solar facilities in Oregon and around the Bay Area. Thanks for helping create a stable and clean energy future!
Palo Alto Municipal Service Center (MSC)
Located at the MSC on East Bayshore Road off Highway 101, this 75 kW project is notable because of its solar trackers, which follow the sun. This results in almost a 50% greater ability to capture solar energy than non-tracking projects nearby.
Cubberley Community Center
Located at 4000 Middlefield Road, Cubberley Community Center hosts the largest of the three city-funded solar projects. The 117 kW rooftop PV system and photovoltaic canopy is installed on buildings G and N. The canopy will generate electricity as well as protect the classrooms from sun and rain.
Lucy Evans Baylands Nature Interpretive Center
Located at the East end of Embarcadero Road, the Baylands Interpretive Center has the smallest of the three solar facilities at 15 kW, but it's no less interesting. Along with amazing bird watching, visitors can view the Center's rooftop solar panels using a submarine periscope.
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