General
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Clean Energy Buyers Association - CEBA
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| LPAA initiative
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No
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| NAZCA Initiative
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No
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| Website address
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https://cebuyers.org/
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| Starting year
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2021
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| End year
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| Secretariat
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The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) is a membership association for energy customers seeking to procure clean energy across the U.S. Today, our membership of nearly 300 includes stakeholders from across the commercial and industrial sector, non-profit organizations, as well as energy providers and service providers.
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| Organisational structure
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CEBA is led by four non-profit organizations that combine deep expertise in transforming energy markets: BSR’s Future of Internet Power, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center, World Resources Institute’s Charge Initiative, and World Wildlife Fund’s Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers’ Principles
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| Geographical coverage
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North America
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| Name of lead organisation
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| Type of lead organisation
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Network/Consortium/Partnership
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| Location/Nationality of lead organisation
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United States of America
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Description
| Description
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The name changed in 2021 to "Clean Energy Buyers Alliance"
The new focus reflects a more holistic approach to clean energy adoption. It’s no longer about the emissions associated with an individual organization’s energy use, it’s about driving a cleaner grid so every electricity end user — be it a factory or a home — is using carbon-free energy.
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| Objectives
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The new name comes with a new organizational aspiration: a 90 percent carbon-free electrical system in the U.S. by 2030. This is an evolution of the organization’s previous goal, to catalyze 60 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2025.
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| Activities
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According to CEBA’s press release, the organization will focus on three key transformations:
Unlocking markets so that energy customers can use their buying power and market influence to accelerate electricity decarbonization.
Catalyzing communities of energy customers to actively choose clean energy and to do more together than they could on their own.
Decarbonizing the grid for all, because not every energy customer can or will use their buying power to choose clean energy.
This systems-level focus could open the door for CEBA to be a powerful business voice to support clean energy policy. Some of the world’s most iconic brands are CEBA members, including Google, General Motors, McDonald’s and Target, which could make a meaningful difference in policy negotiations.
If CEBA grows enough in influence, this holistic approach could provide an important balance to other business associations to which many of these same corporations also belong, such as the Business Roundtable, which are actively fighting climate legislation and the Build Back Better act.
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Monitoring and Impacts
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| Goals
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The goal is to help corporations purchase 60GW of additional renewable energy in the US by 2025, growing the total amount of non-hydro renewables on the U.S. grid by more than 50%, from 107 GW in 2015.
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Participants
| Participants
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Number
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Names
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| Members
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300
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| Companies
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300
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300+ companies and other organizations across the four initiatives
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| Business organisations
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0
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| Research and educational organisations
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0
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| Non-governmental organisations
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0
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| National states
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0
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| Governmental actors
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0
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| Regional / state / county actors
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0
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| City / municipal actors
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0
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| Intergovernmental organisations
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0
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| Financial Institutions
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0
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| Faith based organisations
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0
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| Other members
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0
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| Supporting partners
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0
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| Number of members in the years
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| Have only national states as participators
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No
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Theme
| Transport
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Agriculture
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Forestry
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Business
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Financial institutions
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Buildings
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Industry
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Waste
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Cities and subnational governments
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Short Term Pollutants
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International maritime transport
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Energy Supply
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Fluorinated gases
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Energy efficiency
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Renewable energy
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Supply chain emission reductions
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Adaptation
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Other
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Resilience
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Innovation
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Energy Access and Efficiency
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Private Finance
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Last update: 27 April 2022 08:34:00
Not only have national states as participators
