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Three new companies have signed onto the Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers' Principles, a framework intended to help businesses advance their purchasing of clean energy from the grid.

An updated agenda and confirmed list of speakers, including energy executives from Bloomberg LP, General Motors Co. and Procter and Gamble Co., is now available for the Smart Energy Decisions Innovation Summit.

New York City-based health care system Urban Health Plan has installed an innovative solar project at one of its facilities in the Bronx that is expected to reduce its energy costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Apple announced Jan. 25 that it reached an agreement with Nevada utility NV Energy to build 200 MW of additional solar energy in the state by early 2019.

Storage and information management services company Iron Mountain Inc. has entered into a new renewable energy supply agreement to fufill a portion of the electrical load for its Texas operations.

Swedish home furnishings retailer IKEA recently completed the installation of its fourth biogas-powered fuel cell system.

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have asked officials in the Trump administration to oppose, as is, an almost completed $400 million wind project that Amazon Web Services expects to buy clean energy from.

Implementation of a community choice aggregation program that allows businesses to pool demand to make bulk purchases of electricity from renewable energy sources helped a New York town become the state's first small community to receive a "Clean Energy Community" designation.

Among a growing list of RE100 composite companies, the group recently singled out Goldman Sachs, Elopak and H&M as making big strides toward their goal of powering their operations with 100% renewable energy.

This white paper, presented by EDF Renewable Energy, is intended to serve as a primer for corporate energy buyers that are looking to achieve additionality with their renewable energy purchases.