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Taaleri Energia | November 29, 2021

The Taaleri SolarWind II fund has together with an investment company, Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos, managed by Lords LB Asset Management, a leading investment management firm in the Baltics, acquired 100 percent ownership of the Anykščiai, Rokiškis, and Jonava wind farms from European Energy, a Danish renewable energy company. Lords LB is Taaleri Energia’s joint venture partner in the Baltics. The Anykščiai and Rokiškis wind farms ar...

PV Tech | January 17, 2020

Some of the world’s largest and most iconic businesses have chosen this week to make announcements around the full procurement of renewable electricity, laying the groundwork for the deployment of large solar and wind pipelines in the matter of years. On Thursday, technology colossus Microsoft unveiled plans for a green energy purchase spree over the next few years to ensure it can become carbon negative by 2030, avoiding more greenhouse gas emissions than it generates. The firm – a US$126-billi...

Grid Environment

Amazon | September 13, 2023

Amazon makes its first investment in direct air capture technology to combat climate change. Amazon commits to purchasing 250,000 metric tons of carbon removal over a decade from 1PointFive's STRATOS DAC plant. The Climate Pledge Fund also invests in CarbonCapture Inc., known for modular DAC systems designed for cost-effective CO2 removal. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes the need for DAC and other sol...

Energy

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. and Liberty | September 09, 2021

Liberty, a part of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., announced today its collaboration with JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) on the 108 MW Shady Oaks II wind project that is expected to bring almost 350,000 MWh of clean energy to the U.S. grid per year. JPMorgan Chase will purchase approximately 70% of the wind farm's energy output, which will serve as the largest contribution to date toward JPMorgan Chase's 100% renewable energy commitment, supplying the equivalent of about 14 percent of...