Minneapolis, MN – Mayo 15, 2018 – The Global Electronics Council (GEC), the organization that manages the EPEAT ecolabel, announced its 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners on Mayo 14th at a ceremony in Minneapolis, MN. The awards program honors organizations that show leadership in the procurement of sustainable IT products. This year’s awardees include national and local governments, financial institutions, healthcare organizations, K-12 schools, institutions of higher learning, and businesses from around the globe. When combined, the 2018 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners realized cost savings of more than $82.5 million across the lifetime of their purchased products. Along with significant cost savings, the 53 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners also recognized considerable environmental benefits from their purchasing decisions including combined greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to removing more than 94,000 passenger cars from the road for a year; a reduction of nearly 2,000 metric tons of hazardous waste; solid waste savings equivalent to that produced by more than 4,500 average U.S. households each year; a reduction in energy usage by 798 million kWh; and avoidance of nearly 1,400 metric tons of water pollutant emissions. Large-scale public and private sector purchasers globally rely on the EPEAT Registry, the leading global ecolabel for sustainable IT products, to identify and purchase sustainable IT products. The Global Electronics Council recognized the EPEAT Purchaser Award winners at a ceremony sponsored by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. Award ceremony speakers included purchaser representatives Probuddho Halder from India’s Wipro Limited, and Luke Jannett from the State of Minnesota.

Award Winners Award winners were recognized for their purchases in four IT product categories: PCs and Displays, Imaging Equipment, Mobile Phones, and Televisions. Award winners earned one star for each product category in which they committed to purchasing EPEAT registered products.

Ganadores del Premio Cuatro Estrellas

• Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC; Y-12 National Security Complex
• Oficina de Formación de la DEA
• Oficina de Tecnología de Investigación de la DEA
• Hackensack Meridian Health
• Kaiser Permanente
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Universidades asociadas de Oak Ridge
• Instalación del Acelerador Nacional Thomas Jefferson
• Administración de Servicios Generales de EE.UU.

Ganadores del Premio Tres Estrellas

• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• City of Fort Collins, Colorado
• Clínica Cleveland
• Departamento de Asuntos de los Veteranos
• Oficina de Gestión del Legado del DOE
• Centro de Inteligencia de El Paso
• Agencia de Defensa de Misiles
• Mission Support Alliance; CH2M Hill PRC, Washington River Protection Solutions
• Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos
• Laboratorio de Física del Plasma de Princeton del Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos
• Centro Volpe del Departamento de Transporte de Estados Unidos
• Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los Estados Unidos, Región 5
• Wipro, Limited

Ganadores del Premio Dos Estrellas

• Battelle Energy Alliance
• Ciudad de Durango, Colorado
• City of Portland, Oregon
• Ciudad de Santa Mónica, California
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• DEA Chicago Field Division
• East Tennessee Technology Park
• Experience Scottsdale
• Universidad Loyola de Chicago
• Agencia de Control de la Contaminación de Minnesota
• NASPO ValuePoint
• Oficina de Información Científica y Técnica
• Planta de difusión gaseosa de Portsmouth, Departamento de Energía de los Estados Unidos
• State of California
• Universidad de Wisconsin - Oshkosh
• El Grupo del Banco Mundial
• UC Santa Barbara
• Voya Financial

Ganadores del Premio Una Estrella

• Colegio Bowdoin
• City of Seattle, Washington
• Laboratorio de la DEA en el sureste de Miami
• Laboratorio occidental de la DEA
• Administración para el Control de Drogas, Laboratorio del Noreste
• Departamento de Transportes de Maryland
• Oficina de Servicios Generales del Estado de Nueva York - Servicios de Adquisición
• Laboratorio Central del Norte - DEA de EE.UU.
• Escuelas de Providence
• Gobierno escocés
• Servicios compartidos en Canadá
• Stanford University