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    The GreenGov Council – co-chaired by the Secretaries of the departments of General Services, Environmental Protection, and Conservation and Natural Resources – encourages the incorporation of environmentally sustainable practices into the Commonwealth's policy, planning, operations, procurement, and regulatory functions.

    The Council will work with state agencies to promote best practices, continuous improvement, and success in achieving the energy efficiency and performance goals established in Executive Order 2019-01.  

    Governor Wolf established a goal for Pennsylvania to strive to achieve a 26% reduction of net greenhouse gas emissions statewide by 2025, and an 80% reduction of net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (from 2005 levels).  
     

    The GreenGov Council will work with state agencies to:  

    • Reduce overall energy consumption by 3-percent per year by 2025 (from 2017 levels);  
    • Replace 25-percent of the state passenger fleet with Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) by 2025, and evaluate opportunities to reduce vehicle miles traveled;  
    • Procure renewable energy to offset at least 40-percent of the commonwealth's annual electricity, and/or directly purchase renewable power generation sited within PA;  
    • Build any new buildings, major renovations, build to suit leased buildings to high-performance building standards.

    The GreenGov Council has published its 2021 GreenGov Annual Report. The report is intended to provide an annual benchmark of the commonwealth's lead-by-example goals, summarize achievements to date, and provide recommendations to commonwealth agencies for 2022 and beyond. 

    As detailed in the 2021 GreenGov Annual Report, the commonwealth has demonstrated progress on the four primary Executive Order goals. Highlights include:

    • A 3.2-percent normalized energy reduction within commonwealth facilities from the previous year with actual cost savings of over $914,000.  Without the energy reductions occurring this year, the commonwealth's total utility expenses would have likely increased due to an overall increase in supply cost for these fuels.
    • 308,978 MWhs of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) were procured for 2021, offsetting 40-percent of the commonwealth's total electricity load for the year. The actual energy cost savings achieved far surpassed the additional REC procurement costs. This purchase ranks the commonwealth #49 on the U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership National Top 100 list. 
    • The commonwealth has 16 EV models available on the state vehicle procurement contract for 2021/22 up from 5 models available in 2020/21 along with 55 additional charging plugs to support the transition to vehicle electrification.
    • Fourteen new construction or major renovation facilities projects incorporating the high-performance building criteria have been added to the construction queue this year for a total of 30 to date.