With nearly 400 members around the world, all committing to the ambitious goal of operating their business using 100% renewable electricity, RE100 has solidified itself as a global leader in driving corporate renewable procurement. In late 2022, RE100 announced changes to its technical criteria – or the rules that member companies follow in pursuit of […]
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Part 2: Managing Market and Operational Risk with VPPAs
Know Your Options When Executing a VPPA Agreement This is Part 2 of a 3-part series. Click here to read part 1 and here for part 3. Accounting stakeholders are ideally involved in a power purchase agreement from the very first stages and will likely have a role throughout the deal process. This is especially true […]
Your Options for Renewable Energy Certificates with VPPAs
Understanding Ownership and Arbitrage of RECs Accounting stakeholders are ideally involved in a power purchase agreement from the very first stages and will likely have a role throughout the deal process. This is especially true when looking at synthetic or virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA). Our blog series on VPPAs and Accounting highlights the issues, […]
Addressing Scope 2 Emissions with Offsite PPAs
How, when, and where should you use offsite PPAs? A Q&A with Schneider Electric expert Elody Samuelson. Elody Samuelson Renewable Energy and Carbon Advisory Senior Consultant elody.samuelson@se.com Elody Samuelson is a senior consultant with Schneider Electric’s Renewable Energy & Carbon Advisory team. She has spent the last thirteen years working […]
Your Decarbonization Journey: Goals, Planning, & Action (Webinar Recording)
This webinar was recorded on December 15, 2022. The panelists were Julio Morales and Pete Lundquist from North Star Clean Energy and Peter Swank from Schneider Electric.
December Update: The Impact of the IRA
The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest clean energy investment in American history and aims to reduce the costs and barriers to developing and deploying renewable energy. The act also supports the goal of reducing economy-wide emissions by 40% in the United States by 2030. While the Inflation Reduction Act will likely have a positive […]
Voluntary Carbon Market Spotlight: August through October 2022
Carbon offsets give organizations the means to directly, and positively impact their GHG emissions. Companies that purchase carbon offsets provide financial support to projects that remove GHGs from the environment or keep them from being initially emitted. While the exact mechanisms behind carbon offset projects may be technical, the essence of carbon offsets is […]
The Scoop Carbon Offset Quality, Pricing, Technology and More
Kathryn Thomsen, Carbon Offset Manager, Environmental Commodities Operations Kathryn advises Schneider Electric’s sustainability clients and teams on carbon offset strategies to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets. She specializes in navigating the evolving voluntary carbon market. What’s all the buzz about carbon offset quality lately, including the highly publicized piece by John Oliver on a recent […]