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Customers Seek Increased Clean Energy in Value Chains to Reduce Scope 3 Emissions
By Hanna Ye and Doug Miller To meet organizational goals, emerging regulations, and stakeholder demands, energy customers are beginning to assess solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their value chains. These Scope 3 emissions originate from upstream and downstream sources and on average represent 75% of an organization’s total emissions. At the beginning of…
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CEBI’s Four Key Recommendations for Updating the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Will Help Advance Systemic Grid Decarbonization
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol—the preeminent global framework for greenhouse gas inventory accounting—is under revision. The protocol’s Scope 2 and 3 standards have not been updated in eight and 12 years, respectively, and clean energy markets have evolved significantly in that time. World Resources Institute (WRI), which oversees the protocol with World Business Council for Sustainable…
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Report: Regional Transmission Collaboration Across the West and Southeast Would Bring Significant Economic and Reliability Benefits
Independent Regional Planning Would Facilitate Trustworthy, Cost-Effective Coordination Washington, D.C. (Feb. 9, 2023) — Independent region-wide transmission planning would bring cost savings and reliability benefits and help create trustworthy and transparent transmission outcomes for energy customers in the U.S. West and Southeast, according to a report released today by Grid Strategies and the Clean Energy…
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Energy Customer Markets Are Key to Scaling Clean Hydrogen
The Clean Energy Buyers Institute’s NextGen CFE Initiative aims to expand the menu of carbon-free electricity procurement options available to clean energy customers, to help customers optimize the decarbonization impact of their procurement decisions and send more targeted demand signals that accelerate systemic grid decarbonization. Over the past decade, voluntary purchases of carbon-free electricity (CFE) hastened the…