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Amazon | April 20, 2021

Amazon announced nine major utility-scale wind and solar energy facilities in the United States, Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom today. The company now has 206 clean energy projects around the world, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and shops, totaling 8.5 GW of electricity production capacity. With this latest announcement, Amazon has become Europe's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, with over 2.5 GW of rene...

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Tesla | March 17, 2021

Tesla batteries will now be used by Sunshining, a subsidiary of Spanish-Portuguese solar developer Prosalia for its planned 1GigaWatt (GW) solar system in Alentejo, Santiago do Cacém. The proposed project, which needs an investment of €1 billion approximately, is awaiting the results of its environmental evaluation according to the Câmara Municipal de Santiago do Cacém. If the plan gets approved, Sunshining’s THSiS plant with a 1GW battery cou...

Starbucks | January 22, 2020

Starbucks will work to become a "resource positive" company, CEO Kevin Johnson shared in a public letter Tuesday. Resource positive means storing more carbon than the company emits, eliminating waste and providing more clean freshwater than the company uses, according to the letter. Though Johnson laid out some initial targets for reduction in the letter, Starbucks will formalize 2030 goals in 2021 and suppliers and licensees, among other stakeholders, will need to get on board, the CEO wrote. S...

Bloomberg | April 29, 2020

European utilities with bulging renewable energy portfolios are showing that the way out of the coronavirus slump is colored green. Energy companies from Orsted A/S to Iberdrola SA reported robust first quarter earnings in a period that has been bedeviled by a slump in energy demand and a collapse in gas prices. Owning large wind and solar portfolios has so far protected those companies from the worst effects of the crisis. Utilities are the third best performing sector on the Stoxx 600 this yea...