{"id":128771,"date":"2021-02-06T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T19:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/?p=128771"},"modified":"2021-02-08T16:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T13:35:22","slug":"temiz-enerji-satin-alimlari-enerjide-donusumu-de-hizlandiriyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/temiz-enerji-satin-alimlari-enerjide-donusumu-de-hizlandiriyor\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Electricity Purchases Will Drive Clean Energy Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>Following recent news that Amazon\u00a0<strong>AMZN\u00a0<span class=\"ticker-green\">+0.6%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0had become the world\u2019s\u00a0largest purchaser of renewable electricity, growing focus on the need for sustainable operations continues to drive the market in corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs). In 2020 corporations bought nearly 24GW of clean energy.<\/h1>\n<p>Research published by <strong>BloombergNEF (BNEF)<\/strong> showed that <strong>corporations purchased<\/strong> a record of <strong>23.7GW<\/strong> of clean energy in <strong>2020<\/strong>, up from <strong>20.1GW<\/strong> in <strong>2019<\/strong> and <strong>13.6GW<\/strong> in <strong>2018<\/strong>. According to its 1H <strong>2021 Corporate Energy Market Outlook,<\/strong> <strong>clean energy contracts<\/strong> were signed by more than <strong>130 companies<\/strong> in sectors ranging from <strong>oil &amp; gas<\/strong> to big tech. Amazon was the leading <strong>buyer of clean energy<\/strong> in <strong>2020<\/strong>, announcing <strong>35 separate<\/strong><em> clean energy PPAs<\/em> in<strong> 2020<\/strong>, totalling <strong>5.1GW<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kyle Harrison<\/strong>, <strong>BNEF senior associate<\/strong> and the lead author of the report, said:<em> \u201cCorporations faced a wave of <strong>adversity in 2020<\/strong> \u2013 internal corporate functions were disrupted on the outset of the pandemic, and many companies saw revenues plummet as global economies buckled. Question marks before \u2013 and after \u2013 <strong>the U.S. election further<\/strong> complicated long-term decision-making for companies. To not only maintain, but grow,<strong> the clean energy procurement market<\/strong> under these conditions is a testament to how high sustainability is on many corporations\u2019 agendas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While the US has dominated the market for some time, the need to <strong>implement sustainability strategies<\/strong> across operations is seeing an expansion in other markets. \u00a0While companies announced<strong> 11.9GW<\/strong> of corporate<strong> PPAs<\/strong> in the U.S. in <strong>2020<\/strong>, corporate PPA volumes in the <strong>Europe, Middle East<\/strong> and<strong> Africa<\/strong> <strong>(EMEA) region<\/strong> nearly tripled, from <strong>2.6GW<\/strong> in <strong>2019<\/strong> to a record<strong> 7.2GW<\/strong> in 2020.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following recent news that Amazon\u00a0AMZN\u00a0+0.6%\u00a0had become the world\u2019s\u00a0largest purchaser of renewable electricity, growing focus on the need for sustainable operations continues to drive the market in corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs). In 2020 corporations bought nearly 24GW of clean energy. Research published by BloombergNEF (BNEF) showed that corporations purchased a record of 23.7GW of clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,53,49,50],"tags":[86090,86085,86091,86181,86094,78078,86088,86087,66250,42871,86093,86186,86184,86183,86187,86185,51789,77707,86182,52379,52259,86089,44108,53157,74316,86092,53282,42867,51211,86083,86084,45078,86086,86095,54979,51052,68094,44090,59009],"views":206,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128779,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771\/revisions\/128779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enerjigazetesi.ist\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}