The American Consumer Will Buy Your Renewably Powered Product If Only You’ll Tell Them More About It By Suzanne C. Shelton, Shelton Group and Gil Jenkins, ACOREJune 12, 2018 America’s leading companies have always understood the need to invest in their brands. What’s becoming a more mainstream notion now is that any shrewd brand investment would do well to articulate a commitment to environmental stewardship. Consumers are primed to reward companies for making proactive, public commitments to both overarching sustainability and related renewable energy… Read more
As Money-Losing Coal Plants Eye a Bailout, Solar Forges Ahead By Matthew Crosby, Coronal EnergyJune 8, 2018 Late last week, news broke that the Trump administration was planning to order grid operators—via “emergency measures” under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy—to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear power plants in the name of national security and reliability. Apart from those who would directly benefit from such unprecedented federal intervention… Read more
Forecasting the Future for Renewable Energy Procurement By Max AlmonoApril 4, 2018 Last month, ACORE hosted an executive roundtable in Washington, D.C. with prominent corporate procurers, financiers and developers in the renewable energy sector to discuss corporate leadership in the renewable energy economy. The roundtable highlighted the ongoing shift in purchasers’ interests from conventional agreements for their own operations to a broader push for renewable energy adoption… Read more
Five Ways Smaller Companies Are Accessing Renewable Electricity By Hans Royal, Schneider Electric Energy & Sustainability ServicesMarch 27, 2018 The boom in corporate renewable energy buying over the past five years has changed the electricity landscape. Thanks to rapidly falling prices in clean technologies—bolstered in the U.S. by the federal Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind and the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar—corporate offtake from new capacity projects has played a major role… Read more
Avangrid Renewables’ Megawatt Madness By Art Sasse, Avangrid RenewablesMarch 21, 2018 As one of the nation’s largest owners and operators of wind and solar farms, Avangrid Renewables is leading the transformation to a reliable, clean energy future. With more than 60 sites across the United States, the company’s plants stretch from coast to coast and from our northern border to the tip of the South Texas… Read more
American Renewable Energy Gala Celebrates Policy Champions and Corporate Leaders By Erin SnyderMarch 20, 2018 On Tuesday, March 13, in the grand foyer of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., over 250 executives gathered to honor policy champions and industry giants for their leadership and contributions to innovation and growth of the renewable energy industry. The 2018 American Renewable Energy Gala was a special night… Read more
