(3BL Media) Harrison Township, MI - June 14, 2012 - Sterling Planet, the nation’s leading retail provider of renewable energy and other carbon-reduction assets, and Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard Base announced today that they have together made history. The nation’s first transaction in the emerging market for White Tags® energy efficiency certificates has been completed, with Sterling Planet purchasing Selfridge’s 2011 White Tags.

White Tags® are innovative trading instruments, available only through Sterling Planet, that recognize the meter-measured, performance-based results of recent projects to increase energy efficiency. Each White Tag represents either 1 MWh of electricity savings or 1 MCF (thousand cubic feet) of natural gas savings. Selfridge achieved its 2011 energy savings mostly through lighting, HVAC upgrades and changes in energy-use behaviors. Now the base is considering ways to reinvest proceeds from this initial White Tags sale into additional pr