Merchant Renewable Power

The one-hour webinar session explored some of the exclusive findings and best-practice case studies contained within edie’s upcoming Mission Possible sector insight report, which looked at the future of sustainability in construction.

Distributed energy is an increasingly valuable player for any sustainable company that has a focus on integrating environmental and economic considerations into every aspect of the business, from supply chain management to workforce development to energy, to redefine business as usual.

The risks of electricity outages caused by climate related extreme weather including excessive heat, wildfires, storms and public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) has significantly increased over the past several years. In response, California’s population of backup generators has grown rapidly. An analysis conducted by policy consultancy M.Cubed of the number and characteristics of back-up generators permitted in the Bay Area and South Coast air quality management districts, found that the generator population jumped by 22 percent in South Coast over the last year, with 34 percent growth in less than three years in the Bay Area.

With falling prices, new government initiatives and new business models, the opportunities for solar seem endless. However, intermittency issues and curtailment risk threaten this growth of solar energy in emerging markets and need to be addressed. In this webinar Ana Verana Lima (Bloomberg New Energy Finance), Frederik van Pallandt (FMO) and Javier Relanchio (Mott MacDonald) will shed their light on the evolving landscape of solar energy in emerging markets.