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Major Firms Call for Climate Agreement in Paris

October 16, 2015November 12, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Fourteen major companies based or with large-scale operations in the US have voiced strong support for a new global climate agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year. In a statement organized by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), the companies — Alcoa, Alstom, ... Read more »

Calpine to Acquire Champion Energy

July 22, 2015 by Cheryl Kaften

Houston-based Calpine – which claims to be America’s largest wholesale generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources – entered into an agreement on July 20 to purchase Champion Energy Marketing, a retail electric provider, also headquartered in Houston. The transaction will cost $240 million, subject to working capital adjustments. Champion expects ... Read more »

Power Sector Emissions Continue to Drop

July 15, 2015July 14, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The largest electric utilities in the US — including Entergy, Hoosier Energy and Xcel — have seen significant reductions in global warming pollution in recent years, according to an analysis of power plant air pollution emissions. The report — a collaborative effort between Ceres, Bank of America, four power producers ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: Calpine, China Recycling Energy, Terra Novo

May 14, 2015May 14, 2015 by Karen Henry

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. Calpine Corporation: The electric utility company has named W.G. “Trey” Griggs III as its executive vice president and chief commercial officer effective June 1. Previously, Griggs was a managing director at Goldman Sachs. Calpine also announced that Jeff ... Read more »

Gas-Fired Plant Helps Customers Reduce Emissions by 11%

March 11, 2015 by Josh Kessler

Calpine has announced an agreement to provide Marin Clean Energy (MCE) with generation from its Delta Energy Center that will reduce MCE’s CO2 emissions by 11 percent. MCE is a community choice aggregator in Northern California that offers customers retail electricity products composed of 50 or 100 percent renewable energy. ... Read more »

AEP, Duke Top Power Plant Carbon Pollution List

May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

American Electric Power emitted the most carbon from power plants in 2012 — some 141,226,882 tons of CO2 — followed by Duke Energy at 134,277,330 tons, according to a report on US power plant carbon pollution. Benchmarking Air Emissions says the top five — AEP, Duke, Southern Company, NRG and ... Read more »

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