Green Mountain Energy Company is the nation’s leading retail provider of cleaner energy and carbon offset solutions. Green Mountain offers residential, business, institutional and governmental customers an easy way to purchase cleaner, affordable electricity products, as well as the opportunity to offset their carbon footprint.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Green Mountain Energy Company began in Vermont in 1997 with a simple idea: Use the power of consumer choice to change the way power is made. Ten years later, Green Mountain and our customers have helped to:

* Deliver more than six billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy into the market

* Prevent as much CO2 pollution as the equivalent of planting over 291 million trees

* Spur the development of 16 new wind and solar facilities across the nation

Our customers are concerned about leaving a better world for future generations. Purchasing cleaner electricity products and carbon offsets provides them an easy way.

Financials

Date Type Amount Investors Valuation
04/01/01 Series A 2M Unknown

People

Paul Thomas (CTO)

Bryan DeCordova (Chief Financial Officer / Treasurer)

Robert Thomas (Chief Legal Officer)

Gillan Taddune (Chief Environmental Officer)

View more details about the people at Green Mountain Energy

Competitors

Eco-Carbone: Eco-Carbone provides consulting and project development services in the area of climate change mitigation. We specialize… See Company Profile »

View more details about this company's competitors

News

Survey of the 2013 Gaming Post-Apocalypse

December 31, 2012 12:53 am

A Survey of the 2013 Gaming Post-Apocalypse As 2012 comes to a close, it’s time for a look at what’s… Continue reading ⟩

Palm founders are back with Grok, a neuroscience-inspired big data engine

December 18, 2012 5:00 pm

Imagine a world where every machine — from the smart meter to the cell phone — is designed to mimic… Continue reading ⟩

Apache Solr competitor Elasticsearch grabs $10M, ramps up its ‘big data’ offering

November 8, 2012 5:59 pm

Elasticsearch, the open source project for developers to slice and dice their data, has pulled in $10 million. Since launching… Continue reading ⟩