Smart Energy Decisions News

In this episode of Smart Energy Voices, host Debra Chanil sat down with Marshall Duer-Balkind, Director of Policy Programs at the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), to talk about building performance standards (BPS) and their implications for the energy transition. He also gives an overview of IMT's mission and work, focusing on their efforts to improve the efficiency and performance of buildings through policy development and equitable decarbonization.

Global plant-based food ingredient supplier Green Boy Group was able to completely offset its Scope 1 and 2 emissions and part of its Scope 3 emissions, making the company carbon neutral in 2023.

Caesars Entertainment, Inc., a casino-entertainment company, is implementing a new GHG reduction goal of 46.2% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline after achieving emission reduction goals three years ahead of schedule in 2022.

Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) signed a renewable PPA to secure 140 MW of wind energy from a new wind farm situated in the Western and Northern Cape Province.

Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) signed a 15-year Long-Term Resource Adequacy Agreement for a 112.5-MW Sierra Pinta Energy Storage project in Yuma County, Arizona.

The Catholic University of America added a solar array on 25 acres of previously undeveloped land at its West Campus.

Microsoft joined as a founding member of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) initiative Project Runway .

Polestar is lowering its supply chain emissions by integrating renewable fuels on its ocean freight routes, which account for around 75% of the automaker's total transportation emissions.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the finalization of new contracts for two offshore wind projects totaling over 1,700 megawatts, which will be the largest power generation projects in New York State in over 35 years after they enter operation in 2026. 

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