Why corporate energy buyers should 'Go to 11'
Large buyers have deployed around 25 new gigawatts of new renewable capacity over the last five years. Traditional corporate procurement methods have led to this success story, but the planet requires we move even faster and more effectively to adopt clean energy. In this article, Armond Cohen and I discuss how corporate procurement “best practice” can evolve to decarbonize the grid more aggressively and result in greater carbon impact than current practices.
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Executive Director at The Ultra Low Carbon Solar Alliance
4 年Thanks for shining a light on this deeper element of grid decarbonization, and the role of smart buying in expanding the climate benefits of renewable energy. Another important part of this smarter buying is awareness of the supply chains your renewables arise from. Many of the solar modules emerging from the Chinese industry draw on a manufacturing base powered by coal-fired electricity, and this coal-fired solar can have quite high levels of embodied carbon. Simply by more conciously buying your modules (or PPAs) from decarbonized supply chains you can get high performace solar without the baggage of a coal-fired supply chain and its emissions. As a bonus the market signal will tell the solar industry it needs to grow more cleanly and your supply chains will become more resilient.