Corporate Procurement
How Canva is helping its printing partners buy solar power
A unique contract allows companies that are typically too small to negotiate their own power contracts to fund new green energy projects. Read More
Inside Microsoft's record-breaking carbon removal contract
The company signed a contract for 3.3 million metric tons of offsets over 10 years from a facility in Stockholm. Read More
How 8 corporate buyers are keeping an aging wind farm on the Texas grid
Autodesk, Arrow Electronics and Brooks Running are buying 'high impact RECs through a new energy marketplace created by startup Ever.green. Read More
Apple, Nike and others push Asian suppliers to buy clean energy
The Clean Energy Procurement Academy will fund training for supply chain partners in Asia Pacific countries where renewable power is tougher to source. Read More
Microsoft, Apple, Frontier extend support for ‘high-quality’ carbon removal
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. Read More
Amazon procures record 8.3GW of clean energy in 2022
The tech giant claims to set a new record for the amount of clean power purchased by a single company in a year. Read More
The next generation of carbon-free energy procurement
How the push for 24/7 access to clean electricity is changing the rules for corporate energy buyers. Read More
First Movers Coalition buying pledges reach $12 billion and counting
The advance market procurement initiative, launched in November 2021 by U.S. climate adviser John Kerry, adds cement and concrete to buying commitments. Read More
Walmart suppliers join forces to buy renewable electricity
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. Read More
We need new corporate energy procurement standards to decarbonize the grid
The current standards have served their purpose, but we must evolve to Accounting 2.0 to account for siting and timing of clean energy. Read More
