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Net Zero Consortium for Buyers U.S. VPPA Opportunity Index: 2022 Q2

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

Energy, Net Zero, Power Purchase Agreements, Renewable Energy, Solar
Net Zero Consortium for Buyers VPPA Opportunity Index: 2021 Q4

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

Aggregated Procurement, Best Practice, Client Meetings, Corporate Leadership, Energy, Net Zero, Renewable Energy
Summit for Sustainable Business VII Part 3 – Defining and Decarbonizing Scope 3 Emissions

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

Aggregated Procurement, Best Practice, Client Meetings, Corporate Leadership, Cost Savings, Energy, Net Zero, Power Purchase Agreements, Renewable Energy
Summit for Sustainable Business VII Part 2 – Defining and Decarbonizing Scope 2 Emissions

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

Aggregated Procurement, Energy, Net Zero, Power Purchase Agreements, Renewable Energy, Solar
Net Zero Consortium for Buyers VPPA Opportunity Index: 2021 Q3

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

Best Practice, Corporate Leadership, Net Zero, Uncategorized
From Net Zero to Net Positive

In August, the world’s top relevant scientists published another report endorsed by all 193 countries involved in the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the report

Energy, Net Zero, Power Purchase Agreements, Renewable Energy, Solar
Incorporating ESG Considerations into VPPA Procurements

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,

Aggregated Procurement, Energy, Net Zero, Power Purchase Agreements, Renewable Energy, Solar
The Net Zero Consortium for Buyers VPPA Opportunity Index: 2021 Q2

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

Aggregated Procurement, Net Zero, Renewable Enegry
A Scaled Breakthrough in Renewable Energy

Sustainability Roundtable Inc (SR Inc) Member-clients continue to lead on Buyer Aggregated Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs). SR Inc Member-clients MilliporeSigma, Akamai, Synopsys and Uber led on the largest peer Buyer Aggregated VPPA

Aggregated Procurement, Corporate Leadership, Energy, Net Zero, Renewable Energy
Intuit and Cisco Lead on a New Type of Renewable Energy Transaction: VPPA 2.0

SR Inc is pleased to officially announce that the virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with which we assisted Member-Clients Intuit and Cisco in 2018 and 2019 is now operational.  SR Inc’s Renewable Energy Procurement Services (REPS) led the