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The Cost of Constraining New Solar and Wind
A new CEBA study shows that constraining new domestic solar and wind resources increases electricity and natural gas costs compared to scenarios where all resources compete on economics. As a result, American households and businesses could face cost increases if new solar and wind deployment are constrained. Maintaining economic competitiveness as America’s energy demand grows…
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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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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…