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LanzaTech receives multi-million dollar investment for carbon capture projects

LanzaTech, a company dedicated to turning waste carbon into materials, has announced a new funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable. The initial 500 million dollar investment will go towards the co-development and construction of new commercial-scale production plants which will employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT)...

6 Oct 2022

Business

Yoga practitioners join in call urging Lululemon to cut use of fossil fuels

Over 1,600 international yoga practitioners have joined in signing an open letter to Lululemon requesting for the athleisure company to transition to renewable energy. In a release, the group noted that nearly half of Lululemon’s energy comes from factories powered by burning coal, which it added is ultimately harmful to people and the...

19 Sept 2022

Business

Lenzing Group signs deal to finance solar panel plant

The Lenzing Group, a provider in wood-based fibres, has announced that it has signed onto an electricity supply contract with green power producer Enery and Energie Steiermark which will see it finance the development of a solar panel plant. With construction set to commence this autumn in Austria’s Deutschlandsberg region, the plant will supply...

14 Sept 2022

Business

Amazon becomes Europe's largest buyer of renewable energy

Amazon now has nine new utility-scale wind and solar energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Spain, Sweden, and the U.K. This brings the company’s total renewable energy projects to 206 globally, including 71 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 135 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide, which will generate 8.5 GW of electricity...

19 Apr 2021

Retail

Tendam to use renewable energy across Spanish stores and operations

Spanish fashion retailer Tendam has announced that in 2020 it will begin using entirely renewable energy supplied by energy company Endesa across its Spanish store network and operating facilities. The retailer, which owns brands the Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro, Springfield, Women’secret, Fifty brands, and Hoss Intropia, operates almost 800...

10 Mar 2020

Business

Tesco pledges to use 100 percent renewable electricity by 2030

Supermarket giant Tesco has pledged to use 100 percent renewable electricity in its stores and distribution centers by 2030 to help combat climate change. At the moment emissions from the retailer's stores and distribution centers (DCs) account for more than 85 percent of its direct carbon footprint. In order to achieve its new sustainable...

15 May 2017