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Accelerating Sustainable Business Leadership
By Hans Reus When helping companies appoint senior leaders, my colleagues and I have noted an area in which most organizations can improve substantially. Sustainability qualifications aren’t given the importance they should have in the selection of senior business leaders, in comparison with digital expertise and…
Empowering Utilities to Participate in the Clean-Energy Transition – Part 1
This is the first blog in a three-part series. One of the central challenges in effectively managing the transition of the energy grid toward a more distributed and decarbonized orientation is ensuring that utilities actively engage and lead by example and innovation, rather than remain on the sidelines or resist…
Report Release: A Practical Guide to Navigating Utility Business Model Reform
Last week’s election brings a wave of new leadership across the country. Twenty states elected new governors, including at least three—in Colorado, Michigan, and New Mexico—who have suggested adopting 100 percent renewable energy portfolio standards. The composition of many state legislatures will also shift, and these…
Hot Property: How to Manage Valuable US Landscapes for Carbon Sequestration
Achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement will almost inevitably require negative emissions from a combination of agriculture, land use, forestry, and other technologies that actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere. According to IPCC scenarios, 10–20 gigatons of negative emissions are required annually by 2100 to limit global…
Heavy Industry Goes Renewable
Cummins, a global industrial manufacturer in the Fortune 200, signed its first virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with EDP Renewables (EDPR) North America in August 2017 for 75 megawatts (MW) of wind capacity over 15 years. Heavy industry has been slow in signing off-site renewables deals.