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CEF Member News
Amazon
Amazon Australia announced nine new power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will add 430 MW of clean energy to the grid and bring the company’s renewable capacity to 990 MW in Australia once fully operational. The portfolio includes one 202 MW onshore wind farm, three utility-scale solar and battery hybrids, four distributed solar-battery projects, and a new battery installation (eight of the nine projects include battery energy storage systems). This marks Amazon’s largest renewable energy investment in Australia in a single year. PR »
JPMorgan Chase
Purchased over 85,000 metric tons of carbon credits from Anew Climate and Aurora Sustainable Lands. Aurora will generate the credits at its Little Bear Forestry Project, a 38,536-acre forest territory along the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and Virginia. The improved forest management (IFM) project is designed to deliver long-term carbon storage, while also safeguarding biodiversity, water quality, and ecosystem integrity, and will integrate “dynamic baselining,” using satellite monitoring and observations to ensure higher levels of quality and verification. PR »
Microsoft
Clarified that it will continue “to both build and support our existing portfolio of both nature-based and technology-based solutions” (as reported by Bloomberg) in response to Heatmap’s report that Microsoft told some of its partners and suppliers that it was pausing its carbon removal purchases. Microsoft stated that its “decarbonization approach combines reduction, removal, and efficiency,” and it may make adjustments, but these are “not a change in ambition.” Microsoft is the single largest buyer of carbon removals, having purchased 73 million tons of CO2 removals since 2019 (the second largest purchaser, Meta, bought 4 million tons over that period). BLOOMBERG »