By James F. Boyle, CEO & Chairman of Sustainability Roundtable, Inc., and Sarah Lehan, Senior Associate at Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. A fierce debate between different approaches to procuring off-site renewable energy has raged on the op-ed
NZCB Insights from the Field: Change & Growth One constant in the renewable energy space over the last several years is change. Here’s what we know: The upcoming elections in the U.S. will have major impacts on renewable energy incentives,
NZCB “From the Front”: Strategic Patience Pays North America’s leading data service providing virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) proposals reports a 1% decline in proposed solar VPPA prices and a 2% rise in wind VPPA prices in the first
In the second quarter of 2022, an unprecedented number of increasingly diverse corporate off-takers competed to pay rising prices for long-term REC procurements. They did this to help cause new renewable capacity instead of buying RECs from
Whether working with fellow SR Inc Member-Clients in the Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB) or with independent buyer advisory services, all sophisticated SR Inc Member-Clients are interested in the VPPA market as they chart paths to Net Zero
The Summit for Sustainable Business VII on December 10th devoted time to exploring the world of Scope 3 emissions, including current best practices for decarbonization. Jeff Meltzer, Director of Research and Consulting at SR Inc, and Julia
SR Inc’s virtual Summit for Sustainable Business on December 10th dedicated a session to defining and decarbonizing global Scope 2 emissions. David Osborn, SR Inc’s COO and Senior Advisor, presented on leading Scope 2 decarbonization strategies
Why VPPAs and VPPA2.0? As a growing number of sustainability leaders know, off-site renewable energy regularly provides the vast bulk of a company’s emission reductions. This is true whether that is done through: (a) increasingly expensive
More and more corporate teams are turning to Virtual Power Purchase Agreements, or VPPAs, to reduce their scope 2 emissions. These agreements allow corporate buyers to directly cause new renewable electricity even with geographically scattered,
Every quarter since 2019, SR Inc’s Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB) has been pleased to offer the NZCB VPPA Opportunity Index that enables a comparison of potential wind and solar VPPA performance across US hubs using common analytics. The
