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Renewable Energy Buyers' Alliance (REBA)

Why utilities and cities are joining REBA ... Marty Spitzer, senior director of climate and renewable energy for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF),

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Energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. It has made progress possible over the past 200 or more years, but the use of energy has an environmental downside and there is little or no accountability for the energy practices of the various actors in the socio-enviro-economic system. I argue that it would be useful for all economic actors to be required to report on their consumption of energy in a meaningful way, together with the amount of energy embedded in the product / material flowing through their operations. This amount of energy consumption will give a measure of the standard unsustainability of the organization. Organizations that are making use of environmentally responsible energy sourcing can report how well they are doing relative to the standard unsustainability. This is important because our modern profit driven economy is incredibly unsustainable and there is no effective numbering of anything except the elements that drive profit increase, volume increase, etc all of which are driving decisions in the wrong direction.
Peter Burgess
Why utilities and cities are joining REBA



Marty Spitzer, senior director of climate and renewable energy for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), has been a GreenBiz partner since the days that it was a printed newsletter.

Similarly, he has partnered with the Renewable Energy Buyers' Alliance (REBA) since its 'humble beginnings with maybe 13 people sitting around a table, thinking about what's possible,' he said.

By its summit in September, REBA had 400 members attendees, some of them Fortune 500 companies looking for ways to ease large-scale corporate renewable energy purchases.

'You can't solve this challenge alone,' Spitzer said, so REBA began bringing utilities to the table, followed by cities.

The coalition of buyers and energy providers is more important now than ever — with federal policy stacking the odds against clean energy — and it creates a united cross-industry group that is saying 'We Are Still In' on the Paris Agreement.

February 13, 2018
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