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  • With Enhanced Energy Attribute Certificates, Energy Customers Can Use Their Voluntary Procurement to Send More Powerful and Targeted Market Signals for Systemic Grid Decarbonization

    We need to evolve and expand—rather than diminish—the market-based tools customers have at their disposal to drive systemic grid decarbonization and substantiate their carbon-free electricity procurement. Corporate voluntary carbon-free electricity (CFE) procurement is a proven lever for accelerating grid decarbonization. Case in point, customers drove over one-third of all new CFE capacity additions in the…

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    Energy Attribute Certificate Issuing Bodies Can Unleash Next Generation Procurement by Capturing More Attributes & Better Serving as a “Platform of Platforms”

    The Clean Energy Buyers Institute’s NextGen Activator Workshop series is identifying energy market gaps and changes necessary to help energy customers advance toward and increase the decarbonization impact of their clean energy procurement decisions. Energy attribute certificate (EAC) issuing bodies and registries are critical stakeholders in the voluntary carbon-free electricity (CFE) market. By updating their…

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  • Energy Customers, Solution Providers, and Stakeholders Assess the Role of Avoided Emissions in Decision-Making and Greenhouse Gas Accounting

    The Clean Energy Buyers Institute’s NextGen Activator Workshop series is defining the necessary updates to the current system of energy attribute certificates, data, leadership recognition programs, and greenhouse gas accounting to enable an expansion of the suite of carbon-free procurement options available to customers to achieve their clean energy goals and better optimize their decarbonization…

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    Energy Customers and Solution Providers Identify Key Market Updates to Enable Next Generation Procurement Options

    The Clean Energy Buyers Institute’s NextGen Activator Workshop series identifies energy market gaps and changes necessary to help energy customers advance toward and optimize the decarbonization impact of their clean energy procurement. Energy customers and solution providers have clarified the key updates required for evolving the current system underlying the voluntary carbon-free electricity (CFE) procurement…

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