Through Sustainability Roundtable’s Net Zero Consortium for Buyers (NZCB), Akamai Technologies, Teradyne and Wayfair have signed an aggregated virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with BayWa r.e. Americas.
This agreement covers the renewable energy credits produced by the 135 MW Prairie Solar project in Champaign County, Ill., which is being developed by the BayWa r.e. Americas group and is expected to achieve commercial operation at the end of next year.
By aggregating their demand, the companies overcome the challenge of modest energy loads that may typically hinder independent procurement of utility-scale renewable energy.
Akamai plans to purchase a 30 MW portion of the project.
“Akamai has led the way in innovative renewable energy projects since 2018, when we were a part of the United States’ first corporate aggregated VPPA – a game-changing approach for smaller renewable energy buyers,” says Akamai’s Mike Mattera.
“Today we are proud to continue that legacy by participating in this solar aggregation located in a very carbon intensive grid.”
Teradyne is set to purchase a 20 MW portion of Prairie Solar, with Wayfair also expected to purchase a 20 MW portion of the project.
The NZCB separately advised another entity on a VPPA contract for a 50 MW portion of the Prairie Solar project.
Prairie Solar is set to support the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region of Illinois.
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People have been dancing around the faith/reason duality for more than 2000 years. Aristotle worked out the rules of logic around 350 BCE, and Thomas Aquinas assumed the task of using them to prove the existence of God in the 13th Century CE. Descartes came along a couple of hundred years later, and made some improvements on all this, but we’re still left with very little.
As I told my nephew once when he was assigned a college paper on this, “You can’t have your metaphysical cake and eat it too. You either believe in things for which there is evidence, or you don’t.”
Moreover, as shown at left, faith runs headlong into logical inconsistencies.
Wonder who this “patriot” voted for.
At left is how I feel about Trumpism. I may be limited in how I can go about preventing it from entering the world, but I’ll be damned if it will happen through me.
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