Our environmental ethic has deep roots. From the very beginning, The Synergy Company™ prioritized environmental responsibility alongside profitability. It all started more than 30 years ago when our company founder, Mitchell May, bootstrapped a solar array on the roof of the first offices in Castle Valley, Utah.
This was before , small-scale solar systems were even available in the US and before solar energy could even be distributed to homes and businesses. Mitchell’s system was more expensive on a cost per kilowatt-hour basis and less efficient than those installed today, but it worked well enough and established a precedent for our company and community that would reach well into the future.
From the start, May emphasized that “The Synergy Company was founded on the belief that good faith, integrity, and environmental responsibility are eminently compatible with good business – we unequivocally believe that business can and should be a force for good.”
To that end, in 2000, The Synergy Company became a founding member of Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky® program, which enables businesses to offset their electricity consumption with wind and solar power generation. At the same time, we also helped organize a citywide initiative here in Moab, Utah to promote participation in the program.
These proactive sustainability efforts succeeded in helping numerous members of our community convert to renewable sources, which resulted in Moab being designated as the first Green Power Community in America by the EPA in 2004. Never being satisfied with just “good enough,” The Synergy Company is a unique “oversubscriber” to the Blue Sky program, which means we offset more than 100% of our electricity usage.
In 2020, The Synergy Company purchased enough renewable energy credits from Rocky Mountain Power to reduce our carbon footprint by 940,992 pounds of carbon dioxide. This was achieved by generating an extra 624,000 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy from our manufacturing facility, which is the equivalent to the annual energy created by 945 solar panels.
Participating in the Blue Sky program is only part of our broader sustainability focus, which is integrated throughout all aspects of our business. We continue to make progress in our quest to become carbon neutral or carbon negative and strive to become leaders in our industry for promoting environmental stewardship. Each year, we conduct an environmental analysis and use the results to inform our sustainability-specific investments in the short- and long-term future.
Although our journey to balance environmental responsibility with good business started decades ago by our passionate founder, we will continue striving to lessen our environmental footprint. We invite you to follow us on this journey and to join us as we nurture people, place, and planet.
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