Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

Grid Environment

Duke Energy | November 18, 2022

Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), one of America's largest energy holding companies, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), are entering into a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility's development of industry-leading grid solutions that will benefit customers and help advance Duke Energy's clean energy transition. As part of this agreement, Duke Energy will build new smart grid software and services on AWS and expan...

Facebook | February 05, 2020

Facebook was the largest buyer of renewable energy in the US in 2019, according to research by the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA). REBA said Facebook procured 1.546GW of the 9.33GW sold last year, with Google coming in second with 1.107GW. AT&T came in third place buying 960MW, followed by Microsoft with 624MW and T-Mobile with 581MW. Walmart, Amazon, Ball Corporation, McDonald's and Honda made up the remaining companies in the top 10 clean buyers list last year. The 2019 top 10 list wa...

Bank of America | January 21, 2020

American lender Bank of America (BoA) on Tuesday said it has met its 100 percent renewable electricity (or carbon neutrality) goal a year ahead of its schedule. However, it is pending to the third-party verification. It was accomplished by reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions from its facilities, purchasing 100 percent renewable power and buying carbon offsets for its remaining unavoidable emissions. Commenting on the development, Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, said “we are delivering respo...

Envision Solar International, Inc. | July 15, 2020

Envision Solar International, Inc., the leading producer of unique and sustainable infrastructure products for electric vehicle charging, energy security and outdoor media announced the deployment of its EV ARC™ electric vehicle charging infrastructure product for Envoy On Demand Electric Vehicles in Los Angeles County. The EV ARC™ product is powering two Blink (Nasdaq: BLNK) 80 amp Level 2 charging stations to charge Envoy’s on demand shared electric vehicles. EV ARC™ en...