Kohl’s, Intel Lead Vestas’s Ranking of Renewable Energy Users

Intel Corp., the world’s largest chipmaker, and the U.S. department-store chain Kohl’s Corp. are the top corporate users of renewable energy, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a report for Vestas Wind Systems A/S.

Intel bought 1,493 gigawatt-hours of electricity from renewable sources in 2010, and Kohl’s purchased 1,418 gigawatt-hours, according to New Energy Finance’s Corporate Renewable Energy Index, or CREX. In terms of renewables as a proportion of total power use, Kohl’s and Whole Food Markets Inc. had 100 percent. Intel’s 35 percent didn’t make the top 20.