Corporate Procurement

The Clean Energy Procurement Academy will fund training for supply chain partners in Asia Pacific countries where renewable power is tougher to source.

More companies join the Frontier advance market commitment initiative, including Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase and Workday. Plus, Microsoft and Apple dedicate new funding to emerging carbon removal approaches.

The tech giant claims to set a new record for the amount of clean power purchased by a single company in a year.

How the push for 24/7 access to clean electricity is changing the rules for corporate energy buyers.

The advance market procurement initiative, launched in November 2021 by U.S. climate adviser John Kerry, adds cement and concrete to buying commitments.

Under Gigaton PPA, a diverse group including Amy’s Kitchen, Great Lakes Cheese, Levi Strauss & Co., The J.M. Smucker Co. and Valvoline is contracting for 250,000 megawatt-hours of power annually.

The current standards have served their purpose, but we must evolve to Accounting 2.0 to account for siting and timing of clean energy.

To consider only Google’s procurement power vastly underappreciates the influence the company is having on the broader clean energy transition.

What’s inside the Clean Energy Buyer Association's latest ‘State of the Market’ report.

The first three months of the year brought innovations in the types of energy resources contracted, with an uptick in corporate interest in geothermal.