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Sustainable Business 101: How to go green with my business?

While all businesses should be sustainable, the idea still confuses consumers, capitalists, and industries. What exactly does it mean to be ‘sustainable’? It has a lot to do with renewable energy.

What is a merchant Power Purchase Agreement?

Merchant PPAs (Utility PPAs) are defined as standard contracts between a utility or energy trader and an electricity-consuming off-taker for the delivery of electricity under a specific price scheme.

What is a corporate Power Purchase Agreement?

Corporate PPAs are long-term contracts between a renewable energy plant owner and a corporate buyer for delivering green electricity and the corresponding Energy Attribute Certificates...

Challenges for renewable energy sellers & developers

To reduce CO2 emissions, we need to increase the production of low-carbon sources of energy. This blog post will deal with the challenges renewable energy producers have...

How does direct investing in renewable energy work?

By directly investing in renewable energy assets, the producer of renewable energy may simultaneously become the off-taker and energy attribute certificates are used for their purposes...

What are Unbundled Energy Attribute Certificates?

Unbundled Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) are certificates where the renewable energy seller sells the EAC separately from the underlying energy output to a third party.

What are RECs & other Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs)?

Energy Attribute Certificates are contractual instruments with information about electricity consumption: eg. Guarantees of Origin (EU), Renewable Energy Certificates (USA).

How are supply chains and gray power markets working?

„Gray“ power markets are characterized by utilities running fossil fuel power plants. High electricity prices in “grey” power markets due to high levelized costs of electricity and additional costs...

What is carbon offset & best carbon offsetting solutions

Carbon offsetting solutions force companies to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions by reducing carbon emissions in some other operations. But is this enough?

Scope 3: Why Does it Matter to Companies?

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol distinguishes between three types of emissions that negatively impact our planet and contribute to the global carbon footprint.

Challenges for corporate buyer's sustainability strategy

An increasing number of companies have realized the need to reduce their carbon footprint. However, the path to going green doesn't exist without obstacles...

How to reduce your scope 2 emissions?

These instruments can be divided into energy attribute certificates (EACs), green tariffs, power purchase agreements (PPAs) or even direct investments in renewable energy assets.

What is the EU Taxonomy regulation & how to become compliant

The EU Taxonomy regulation is a classification system designed to direct investments toward sustainable projects. A company has various options to reduce its CO2 emissions to become compliant.

What happens to wind power plants after subsidies?

Power plants are no longer eligible for subsidies by the German state. Post-EEG refers to the period in which plants lose their entitlement to EEG compensation after 20 years...