The companies urged EU leaders to stimulate greater investment from the financial sector and enact policies that support the faster rollout of corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) in a forthcoming economic recovery package.
They wrote a letter to the union and national governments ahead of EU leaders meeting next Friday (19 June) to discuss a 鈧750 billion economic recovery plan, which was unveiled by the European Commission at the end of May.
Signatories included more than 40 of Europe鈥檚 biggest corporate buyers of renewable electricity 鈥 including confectionary giant Mars, Ikea-owner Ingka Group and clothing company VF Corporation, whose brands include the North Face and Timberland 鈥 as well as renewable energy suppliers such as Enel and 脴rsted.
They called for the package to:
- Stimulate investment by providing public credit guarantees or risk-sharing for at-risk renewable energy projects;
- provide policies that support the faster rollout of corporate renewable PPAs; and
- prioritise funding for electricity infrastructure such as transmission and interconnectors, and digitalisation of distribution networks and storage sites.
WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson suggested higher taxes on electricity than gas were another roadblock to renewable energy PPAs and called for this barrier to be removed.
found that companies used PPAs to purchase six times as much renewable power in the Americas than in Europe last year.
Helen Dewhurst, an analyst at BloombergNEF, told 搖錢樹娛樂城 that boosting transparency of corporate renewable energy sourcing could provide first-time buyers with the information they needed to be more confident when negotiating transactions.聽
She also suggested that more information about which energy suppliers and projects and what PPA structures were available would help would-be buyers.
The Climate Group is a partnership of businesses wanting to accelerate climate action. It oversees the RE100 partnership of companies looking to source enough renewable energy to meet 100% of their electricity demands.聽Its CEO Helen Clarkson said: 鈥淲ith the right policy measures in place, businesses will channel billions of euros of investment across the continent 鈥 slashing emissions and creating the new jobs that we need.鈥
Meanwhile, WindEurope鈥檚 Dickson聽echoed recent research by the聽International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena)聽that suggested wind and solar PV鈥檚 cost reductions and cost competitiveness strengthen the economic case for making clean energy a key component of post-virus stimulus packages.
He added: 鈥淢ore and more companies are sourcing their electricity directly from wind farms. It makes sense for them 鈥 wind is cheap and scalable."
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