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March 28, 2019
Facebook, Google, GM, Walmart and more to drive 60 gigawatts of corporate renewables
Google, Facebook, General Motors and Walmart are among a group of more than 300 companies who joined to launch the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), the largest group of corporate renewable energy buyers in the U.S. The group announced a target to add more than 60 gigawatts of new corporate renewables online by 2025.
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Solar - March 6, 2019
Microsoft adds 74 MW of solar in NC
Microsoft Corp. will become the sole offtaker of the Wilkinson Solar Energy Center, a 74-megawatt solar project in North Carolina. The company signed a 15-year PPA with Invenergy, which will construct, own, and operate the Center. This represents Microsoft's fourth PPA in the PJM Interconnection and will bring Microsoft's total renewable energy portfolio to more than 1.3 gigawatts.
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CHP - March 2, 2019
Weekend reads: Amazon's electric megafleet; CHP wakes up
It's the weekend! Kick back and relax with these can't-miss energy articles from around the web:
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Sourcing Renewables - February 28, 2019
3M flips the switch to 100% RE
3M announced its commitment to move to 100% renewable electricity in all its facilities around the work, beginning with its St. Paul headquarters, a 409-acre campus with some 12,000 employees across 30 buildings and research labs.
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February 28, 2019
Barrette Outdoor Living takes first solar step
Barrette Outdoor Living (BOL) has completed the installation of a rooftop solar array on their 400,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Galloway, N.J., making it one of the area's largest solar projects. This is the company’s first plant to undergo the transition; plans call for this program to be extended throughout BOL’s eight other North American manufacturing plants in North America
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Wind - February 26, 2019
GM partners for wind energy in Michigan
General Motors announced an agreement to purchase 300,000 megawatt hours of wind energy through DTE Energy’s MIGreenPower program. The energy sourced will be enough to power 100% of GM’s global technical center in Warren and their Detroit-based operations at the Renaissance Center.
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February 25, 2019 - By Mindy Lubber, Ceres
Can We Talk? Changing the Sustainability Conversation Between Investors and Companies
Many companies portray sustainability issues as good public relations — even as evidence is growing that they are material to strong financial performance. This column from Ceres shows that these failures to communicate the financial value of sustainability have real costs.
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February 22, 2019
Ford signs green tariff for locally-sourced wind
Ford Motor Company will soon power several of its Michigan facilities with 100% locally sourced renewable energy. The company also plans to announce a new Global Carbon Reduction Strategy, which will focus on renewable energy in conjunction with the launch of the company’s 20th annual Sustainability Report in June.
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Solar - February 19, 2019
Audi Hungaria to install Europe’s biggest rooftop PV
Audi announced it will build a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Győr, Hungary. Covering about 160,000 square meters, this will create Europe’s largest photovoltaic system.
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February 16, 2019
Weekend reads: Can big oil ride RE & EV waves?; The unsexy part of climate policy
It's the weekend! Kick back and relax with these must-read energy stories from around the web:
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