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Pennsylvania government to source 50% of annual consumption from in-state solar

Renewable Energy World

Under the contract, the Commonwealth will source solar electricity through the end of 2037. As part of this transaction, Constellation will purchase energy and RECs from Lightsource bp’s solar projects and will then sell the power and project-specific RECs to the Commonwealth’s retail accounts.

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New Mexico’s community solar program

Renewable Energy World

This total does not include native community solar projects or rural electric distribution cooperatives. Subscriptions can supply up to 100% of subscribers’ average annual electricity consumption. The first three years of the program are capped at 200 megawatts of total generating capacity.

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Greggs bakes 100 per cent Fairtrade cocoa commitment into supply chain

Business Green

The food retailer said the move to sustainable cocoa across its supply chain would improve household incomes for cocoa growers as well as helping to tackle climate change and further the Fairtrade call for women's empowerment.

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Rethinking Future Investments in Natural Gas Infrastructure

GreenTechMedia

Even in Indiana, whose electricity generation is dominated by coal, utility regulators rejected a proposed new gas plant , citing “the potential risk that customers could sometime in the future be saddled with an uneconomic investment” if the plant were built. Cities in Massachusetts, Washington and Vermont could follow suit.

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Global Briefing: French vegan restaurant becomes first to win coveted Michelin Star

Business Green

The group noted that to meet the goal of becoming net zero emissions economies by 2050, EU countries and US states have set clean power goals to be reached by 2030 in the range of 40 per cent to 74 per cent of the electricity mix. per cent.".

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MISO surprises with FERC Order 2222 implementation date

Renewable Energy World

MISO is in the middle of the Market Systems Enhancement (MSE) project, taking a modular approach to market systems that have not been automated since the 2005 market start date. According to Voltus, Aggregators of Retail Customers (ARCs) are proactively automating their existing tools and processes to allow for batch loading of DERs.

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#Solar100’s William Demas: The Peter Parker of Renewable Finance

GreenTechMedia

I graduated from Harvard in 2005, which was around the time of Facebook and all the big internet [initial public offerings]. Richard Matsui : You’ve had a longstanding career in renewable finance. Can you walk me through how you first decided to work in renewables? William Demas: To be honest, it was happenstance.