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CRS Announces 2025 Green Power Leadership Award Winners

Annual awards honor outstanding achievements by individuals and organizations in promoting renewable energy

 
 
 
 

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Jeff Swenerton
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jeff.swenerton@resource-solutions.org

The nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) presented the 2025 Green Power Leadership Awards today, awarding eight organizations and one individual for their roles in promoting and expanding the use of clean, renewable energy. The awards were presented during the Renewable Energy Markets™ (REM™) 2025 conference in Houston in the categories of Community Impact, Education and Awareness, Market Innovation, and Leader of the year.

“This year’s Green Power Leadership Award winners are using their talents and resources to leverage clean energy development in innovative ways with far-reaching benefits,” said Jennifer Martin, CEO of Center for Resource Solutions. “Our winners this year are helping expand clean energy to underserved communities, extend land-use options through agrivoltaics, combine consumer education with career development, and truly move the needle with substantial solar projects that benefit local workforces.”

2025 Green Power Leadership Award Winners

Community Impact

• Community Services of Moses Lake, Inc.
• Pivot Energy

Education and Awareness

• Exact Solar
• Vote Solar

Market Innovation

• Microsoft
• Consortium for Climate Solutions (C4CS), founded by Harvard University, Mass General Brigham, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Savion
• The Starbucks Coffee Company

Leader of the Year

• James Critchfield

About the Green Power Leadership Awards

The annual Green Power Leadership Awards (GPLAs) are competitive awards that recognize outstanding commitments and achievements in the green power marketplace. By choosing green power instead of conventional electricity, consumers, businesses, and organizations can support increased deployment of renewable energy technologies that will reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation and increase energy security.

About Center for Resource Solutions (CRS)

The nonprofit Center for Resource Solutions creates policy and market solutions to advance sustainable energy. CRS engages with policymakers, utilities, and NGOs around the world to assist in improving the policy climate for renewable development. Its Green-e® certification program is the trusted global leader in clean energy certification, making it easy for businesses and individuals to purchase verified clean energy with confidence, and for consumers to choose sustainable products and services. CRS’s policy team works in North America and internationally to mitigate climate change and building policies and consumer protection mechanisms in renewable energy, greenhouse gas reductions, and energy efficiency. It provides mission-driven advisory services to help organizations navigate their clean energy transitions and achieve impactful decarbonization goals. CRS also runs the biannual Renewable Energy Markets™ (REM™) conferences.