Smart Energy Decisions News

This episode of Smart Energy Voices is a peer-to-peer panel conversation from SED's recent Net Zero forum covering real-time challenges that companies face on their road to net zero. Moderator Peter Kelly-Detwiler is joined by Ryan Spies, VP of Sustainability for Clayco, Marianella Franklin, Chief Sustainability Officer at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and Michal Shepard, Director of Maintenance, Energy, and Engineering at Harris Teeter.

State Farm will soon be covering the entire annual electricity use of its corporate headquarters, operations center and other facilities in Bloomington, Ill., with 50 MW of solar energy.

Global renewable energy capacity installation is expected to nearly double in the next five years and surpass coal due to the ongoing energy crisis.

JetBlue has committed to reducing its jet fuel emissions by 50% per revenue ton kilometer by 2035 in order to achieve net zero by 2040.

The US Secretary of the Interior announced plans to increase solar energy development on public lands to meet the Biden-Harris administration’s renewable energy and conservation goals.

Cleveland-Cliffs announced that it is finalizing an initial phase of research for the front-end engineering design for large-scale carbon capture at its Burns Habor integrated iron and steel facility and will be seeking additional funding for the next phase.

Rivian and Apex Clean Energy announced the signing of a PPA for 50 MW of electricity from the renewable energy company’s proposed Goose Creek Wind farm in Piatt County, Illinois.