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Greening Supply Chains Through Aggregation
Author: Chandni Sinha Das Corporations are facing increasing pressure to reduce their Scope 3 emissions, or the emissions that come from their supply chains. To stay competitive, supplier companies are increasingly seeking to reduce their own emissions through voluntary clean energy procurement. However, these companies often lack sufficient credit, energy load size, experience, and employee…
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Solving Offtaker Credit Barriers through Aggregation
By: Chandni Sinha Das Non-investment grade companies and companies with small energy loads often face trouble accessing cost effective procurement mechanisms. However, aggregation of small energy loads is a multi-offtaker deal structure that holds the potential to overcome these challenges and allow more non-traditional offtakers to transact. While traditional virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) are…
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Beyond the Megawatt: Verse’s Work with Principles for Purpose-Driven Energy Procurement
Author: Seyed Madaeni, Co-founder and CEO Why did your organization get involved with the Beyond the Megawatt initiative? Verse’s mission is to unlock the benefits of clean power for organizations everywhere. But we have to do so in a responsible, sustainable way. Beyond the Megawatt (BTM)has created excellent resources and guidelines to ensure the clean energy…
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Best Practices for Using Credit Insurance for VPPAs
Part 4 of the Energy Customer Investment-Grade Credit Support Blog Series Credit insurance is a financial product purchased by a clean energy developer to offset the risk of offtaker default in a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with a non-investment grade offtaker. CEBI spoke with credit insurance providers to compile some best practices for offtakers…