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Netflix | February 08, 2020

Netflix effectively sources all of its electric power from renewable sources. Where no direct source of green power is available, the company purchases renewable energy certificates (RNEs) to make up the difference. In this way, green energy powered Netflix's entire internal power consumption of 94 gigawatt hours (GWh) in 2019. The report also addressed the 357 GWh that was required to drive Netflix's external computing and networking operations through partners suc as Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (...

Environmental Leader | February 27, 2020

Two big players in the renewable energy space are calling it quits. Panasonic and Tesla ended their solar cell manufacturing partnership at Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, New York, this week. The companies initially formed a joint venture in 2016, agreeing that Panasonic would help pay for part of the solar production equipment at Tesla’s facility in Buffalo, Nikkei Asian Review reported. Gigafactory 2 started manufacturing solar panel components the following year. “Called the Solar Roof, the Tesla ...

Southern Power | June 23, 2020

Southern Power, a leading U.S. wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, today announced that the 200-megawatt (MW) Reading Wind Facility in Osage and Lyon Counties, Kansas, is now operational. This project, Southern Power's eleventh wind facility, is the first to be validated as a carbon offset project under the Verified Carbon Standard Program through an agreement with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. This initiative, which is expected to annually offset more than 10 percen...

The Michigan Public Service Commission | July 13, 2020

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved DTE Electric Co.’s amended renewable energy plan (Case No. U-18232), expanding the company’s portfolio of wind and solar power generation facilities and addressing concerns raised by the Commission in previous orders, including the ability for third-party purchased power agreements to be used to meet the renewable portfolio standard. The Commission approved DTE Electric’s request for ex parte approval of the Meridian Wind Farm Tur...