Going Green

The Wilmington Development Group is committed to the environment. All our new projects will be constructed to the LEED standards. What is LEED® - The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.

The Wilmington Development Group encourages all its clients and customers to participate in a voluntary program called the NC GreenPower Program (http://www.ncgreenpower.org/).NC GreenPower is a statewide effort to improve the environment by using "green power," electricity generated from renewable resources such as solar, wind, biomass and water.  The non-profit NC GreenPower organization is the result of collaboration among electric utilities, environmentalists, state regulators and energy generators.
Here's how the NC GreenPower Program works:

• Participation is completely voluntary-each electric customer can decide whether he or she wants to join.
• All NC GreenPower contributions are tax deductible.
• Customers who volunteer to participate may enroll in one of the following two programs:
• NC GreenPower - this program allows residential and small commercial customers to contribute $4 per month for a 100-kilowatt-hour block of green power.  The $4 per block monthly fee is added to the customer's regular electric bill.  This block of renewable energy will come from solar, wind and biomass resources.  
• NC Renewable Energy -  this program allows larger electricity users to  contribute $2.50 per month for a 100-kilowatt-hour block of green power.  These customers make a minimum commitment of 100 blocks (10,000 kWh) per month for one year.  The $2.50 per block monthly fee is added to the customer's regular electric bill.  This block of renewable energy will come from solar, wind, water and biomass resources.
• NC GreenPower contributions will be itemized on the customer's monthly statement and appear as an additional charge on his or her regular electric bill.

Progress Energy collects customer contributions on behalf of  NC GreenPower, Progress Energy does not keep any of the money.  All contributions are passed along to NC GreenPower for the continued development of green power sources.