Green Credits, Power HostGator

Houston, Texas - (The Hosting News) - September 24, 2008 - Web hosting firm, HostGator, has purchased Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) from a Texas wind farm representing 130 percent of the electricity used to both power and cool all of its servers.



RECs offset energy production through a renewable energy resource. The green energy is then fed into the electrical grid. Inc. magazine's 5000 list recently named the company as the 21st fastest growing company in North America.



Brent Oxley, President and CEO of HostGator.com noted, ''We're in a position to be part of the solution to climate change, rather than part of the problem. If climate change is happening because of people's activities, then you have to wonder what kind of world we're leaving to our children if we don't change.''



The average server produces roughly the same greenhouse gas emissions as a 15 mpg SUV. Nationwide, some three to four percent of all electricity consumed in the United States goes to powering the IT sector.



HostGator's service accounts for approximately 1.3 percent of all the domains on the entire Internet, and their green initiative is the equivalent of the following:

• Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or


• Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or


• Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or


• Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year.