Clif Bar & Company Recognized Nationally for Green Power Leadership

Organic Foodmaker Earns Awards from EPA and Center for Resource
Solutions

EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clif Bar & Company announced today it has received two 2017 Green Power
Leadership awards—one for Excellence in Green Power Use from the U. S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a second for Leadership in
Green Power Education from the Center for Resource Solutions.

The annual awards recognize America’s leading green power users for
their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of
the nation’s voluntary green power market. The EPA and Center for
Resource Solutions presented Clif Bar & Company with the awards today at
the 2017 Renewable Energy Markets Conference in New York City.

Clif Bar was one of just eight organizations nationwide to
receive the EPA’s Excellence in Green Power Use award. Through a
combination of onsite solar and purchased wind power, Clif Bar sources
nearly 16 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually to meet
100 percent of its electricity use at its headquarters, bakeries and
satellite offices. According to the EPA, that’s equivalent to the
electricity use of nearly 1,500 average American homes annually.

This is the fourth time the EPA has formally recognized Clif Bar’s
commitment to the environment. Earlier this year, Clif Bar received the
agency’s Climate Leadership Award for building green power use into its
supply chain.

Additionally, the Center for Resource Solutions recognized Clif Bar for
its effective and unique programs focusing on green power education.
Through Clif Bar’s Cool Home benefits program, the company helps
employees buy energy-efficiency improvements and solar installations for
their homes. It also invests in NativeEnergy’s HelpBuild carbon offsets,
supporting the construction of 35 farmer-, community- and school-owned
wind turbines to help make the company’s operations carbon neutral. Clif
Bar has maintained carbon neutral business operations since 2003.

“Clif Bar values doing business in a different way with a commitment to
Sustaining our Planet as one of the five aspirations that guide our
company,” said Elysa Hammond, Clif Bar’s vice president of environmental
stewardship. “We are honored to be recognized for our efforts to support
green power use and help build the climate movement among our employees,
suppliers and the public. We are also deeply grateful for the leadership
and support from our partners at the EPA who have provided us with
valuable guidance along this journey.”

Green power is electricity generated from environmentally-preferable
renewable resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, biogas, eligible
biomass, and low-impact hydro. Sourcing green power helps build
renewable energy markets, reducing air pollution and other emissions
driving global climate change.

About Clif Bar & Company

Clif Bar & Company crafts nutritious and organic food to feed and
inspire adventure, including the CLIF® BAR® energy bar; CLIF Kid®,
Nourishing Kids in Motion® and LUNA®; The Whole Nutrition Bar. Family
and employee-owned, the company is committed to sustaining its people,
brands, business, community and the planet. For more information on Clif
Bar & Company, please visit www.clifbar.com,
check out our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/clifbar
and follow us at www.twitter.com/clifbar
and www.instagram.com/clifbar.

About the Green Power Leadership Awards

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) co-sponsors the annual
Green Power Leadership Awards with the Center for Resource Solutions.
EPA recognizes winners in the following awards categories: Green Power
Partner of the Year; Sustained Excellence in Green Power; Direct Project
Engagement; Excellence in Green Power Use; and Green Power Community of
the Year. This program recognizes the exceptional achievement among EPA
Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves through green power
procurement, market leadership, overall green power strategy, and
overall impact on the green power market. The ceremony takes place at
the Renewable Energy Markets Conference. This year’s 19 recipients are
using more than 13.4 billion kWh of green power—enough to power more
than 1.2 million average American homes for a year. For additional
information please visit www.epa.gov/greenpower/green-power-leadership-awards.

About EPA’s Green Power Partnership

The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase
green power use among U.S. organizations to advance the American market
for green power and development of those sources as a way to reduce air
pollution and other environmental impacts associated with electricity
use. The Partnership currently has more than 1,400 Partners voluntarily
using more than 43 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually.
Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune
500® companies; small and medium sized businesses; local,
state, and federal governments; and colleges and universities. For
additional information, please visit www.epa.gov/greenpower.

Contacts

Clif Bar & Company
Ashley Gonias, 415-318-4310
[email protected]