REI Co-op Closes 2025 with Massive Renewable Energy And Circularity Gains

Clean energy in local communities A major focus for REI Co-op in 2025 has been backing clean energy in the same communities where it operates stores and partners.

One headline project is a new 2.5MW community solar array in Woodbury, Minnesota, developed with US Solar, which will enable nearly 500 low to moderate-income households to subscribe to renewable power and cut utility bills near the co-op’s Bloomington store.

The co-op also entered an aggregated Virtual Power Purchase Agreement, or VPPA, with Carhartt and other partners that will add 18.5MW of solar energy to the grid in Texas, accelerating new renewable capacity that individual brands might struggle to unlock alone.

In South Carolina, REI Co-op celebrated the launch of another renewable energy project with Ever.green, building on earlier investments to keep adding clean power to regional grids. Partnerships that make climate action “more real and lasting” For REI Co-op, partnerships are the engine behind this climate progress…