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Energize Program Announces First Year Progress Including Formation of PPA Buyers' Cohort for Climate Action

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: November 11 2022, Louisville, KY /3BL Media/ – Schneider Electric today announced that the Energize program, launched in 2021 at COP26, has formed the program’s first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) buyers’ cohort to purchase renewable electricity. . link] #LifeIsOn @SchneiderElec #PPA.

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Small businesses contribute a third of UK emissions, but are laggards in the net zero race

Envirotec Magazine

The research report, “ Smaller businesses and the transition to net zero “, highlights the potential collective influence of UK smaller businesses and the considerable contribution they could make to wider net zero objectives if they all made changes to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. Since the MGT Teesside plant was awarded its CfD, the Government has agreed that this type of power plant does not meet the official definition of low-carbon electricity.

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Comment: Carbon net zero – we’re halfway there

Envirotec Magazine

While the pandemic initially provoked a swift and immediate short-term reaction, the vaccine’s rollout can now afford key legislators the chance to plan for the ‘next normal’, with 2021 assuming extra significance as the UK hosts the UN’s COP26 in Glasgow later this year. So where does this put us?

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Amazon’s massive renewable energy portfolio just got a lot bigger

Renewable Energy World

“We are moving quickly and deliberately to reduce our carbon emissions and address the climate crisis,” said Kara Hurst, vice president of worldwide sustainability at Amazon. At COP26, the world agreed we needed bigger and bolder ambitions around global carbon reduction from all sectors.