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U.S. Wind Power Demand: Corporations Take the Lead
Non-utility customers accounted for 52 percent of last year’s total of over 4,000 MW of wind PPAs. Non-utility customers include some universities and city governments, but the vast majority are corporations.

First-Time Buyers Are Dominating Corporate Renewable Purchasing
First-time corporate buyers are entering the market in droves and now account for the majority of both deal announcements and contracted MW of wind and solar energy.

Ten Things More Important than the Clean Power Plan in Limiting Carbon Emissions in the U.S.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a stay to halt the Clean Power Plan regulation. Here are ten policies, trends, and market forces that are having a larger substantive impact on the trajectory of CO₂ emissions in the U.S. than the Clean Power Plan will.

Boulder Valley School District On Its Way To Net-Zero Energy
In the United States, school buildings are the third biggest energy user of all commercial building types, not only producing a lot of emissions but…

Lockheed Martin Signs Its First Major Renewables Deal for 30 MW of Solar
Earlier this week, aerospace, defense, and advanced technology company Lockheed Martin announced that it had concluded a deal to buy 30 MW of solar power from Duke Energy Renewables, a Business Renewables Center (BRC) sponsor and part of Duke Energy.