Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone One of the largest information and communication technology (ICT) companies in the U.S. will soon power its five Texas data centers with 100 percent renewable energy. Hewlett-Packard (HP) recently announced a 12-year contract to buy 112 megawatts of wind power from a … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. by David Labrador Utility-scale solar and wind power is the best source of cheap, large-scale renewable energy. If you’re just reading the 2015 headlines it can seem as though corporations are surging into that market. The first months of the year have seen a number of … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet by Ian Kelly, Sr. Associate Kaiser Permanente’s recent announcement that it would purchase enough renewable energy to meet half of its electricity consumption in California made big news, from the Bay Area (such as here and here) to the cleantech and sustainable business communities to national … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Hervé Touati and Lily Donge Corporate demand for renewables could double U.S. wind and solar capacity and new collaborative platform will help make it happen. Nearly two-thirds of Fortune 100 and nearly half of Fortune 500 companies have commitments to shift to renewables. Now … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. By Jules Kortenhorst and Rebecca Cole Last week, RMI’s program to significantly scale the commitment by Fortune 500 companies to source renewable energy was chosen as one of six winners at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit’s Finance for Resilience (“FiRe”) event. FiRe is … [continued]
