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Sustainability, Strategy and Best Practices

Xpansiv | November 02, 2022

Xpansiv, the premier market-infrastructure platform for environmental commodities, announced the launch of a new benchmark carbon-offset contract, Sustainable Development Global Emissions Offset™ (SD-GEO™). The standardized contract, tradable on Xpansiv market CBL, provides a benchmark for market participants and corporates to transact high-quality carbon offsets from projects that also deliver high social impact. The SD-GEO will allow for delivery of cookstove project...

pv magazine | March 11, 2020

After nabbing Google and Cisco as early adopters of the company’s Green Source Advantage program (GSA), Duke Energy has now landed its first municipal deal under the scheme – a 35 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. The PPA, which was approved by the city council in late February, makes Charlotte the most populous city in the United States to acquire large-scale solar through a green tariff. The project will be built in Iredell County by Carolina Solar E...

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Daimler | April 07, 2021

Through these agreements with renewables, an increasing number of major industrial players are seeking to decarbonize their activities. Daimler has also signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) with wind farms in Germany and Poland. However, this new agreement will provide them with 100% renewable energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as it combines wind and solar power, with hydro capacity in Norway providing backup. Wind power will be generated by 200 wind turbines located ac...

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Cameco and Brookfield Renewable | October 12, 2022

As announced earlier a consortium comprised of Cameco (NYSE: CCJ; TSX: CCO) and Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEP; TSX: BEP.UN, BEPC), together with its institutional partners, has signed an agreement to acquire Westinghouse Electric Company from Brookfield Business Partners (BBU).This transaction brings Westinghouse’s best-in-class clean power technologies under Brookfield Renewable’s cutting-edge hydroelectric, wind, solar, energy storage and distributed generation portfolio, a...