Tag: Clean Energy

Triodos Bank ranked #1 globally for financing of clean energy projects

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank has been named as the most active clean energy lead arranger by total number of deals in the past year. The top spot was achieved after the bank acted on 140 deals in 2022, with a total deal value of over half a billion US dollars ($504 million), incorporating traditional renewables such as onshore wind, solar and hydro, alongside EV charging, battery storage and energy efficiency projects. The independent analyst Clean Energy Pipeline has tracked and collated the activity of major financial institutions to create a comprehensive league…

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Carbon Trust to take core role in new initiative to accelerate the transition away from coal power to clean energy

Stuart Mitchell

The Coal Asset Transition Accelerator (CATA) was officially announced at COP26 in Glasgow by Laurence Tubiana, CEO and President of the European Climate Foundation (ECF). CATA is a first-of-its-kind platform focused on leveraging finance to accelerate the coal transition globally. CATA will empower key local stakeholders – governments, utilities, coal asset owners, financiers, and civil society organisations – with cutting-edge analyses, leading expertise, and a suite of tools and resources to transition from coal to clean energy.  The Carbon Trust will partner with Climate Smart Ventures (CSV), the RMI (formerly…

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Ceres releases a set of practices for an equitable and just transition to clean energy

Stuart Mitchell

As clean energy deployment accelerates across the U.S. with solar and wind power now supplying more electricity than coal and $1.7 trillion in new renewable projects expected this decade, Ceres issues a set of recommendations to help ensure local communities and workers are not left behind in the clean energy transition. Recognizing in the transition a huge opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy, the report—Practices for Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development of Clean Energy Resources—details how the rapid clean energy deployment underway can and must embrace…

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Apple tops clean energy goal with new supplier commitments

Stuart Mitchell

Apple has announced it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers that have committed to run their Apple production on 100 percent clean energy, bringing the total number to 44. Because of this partnership between Apple and its suppliers, Apple will exceed its goal of bringing 4 gigawatts of renewable energy into its supply chain by 2020, with over an additional gigawatt projected within that timeframe. This comes one year after Apple announced that all of its global facilities are powered by 100 percent renewable energy. “Every time one of…

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AT&T and Emerson are Turning Food Waste into Clean Energy and Fertilizer

Stuart Mitchell

Next week Americans across the country will sit down with their friends and families to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Collectively, those families will also throw away an estimated 200 million pounds of turkey during the holiday, costing us $293 million as a nation. And that’s just one day! But most food waste comes from supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, hospitals and arenas.  Inedible turkey parts such as bones, and skins as well as vegetable stalks and stems, surplus ingredients, and extra pies never make it to a pot or plate. What if all that…

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