Technology companies Google, Adobe and Hewlett Packard joined environmental groups including the Clean Air Task Force and the Environmental Defense Fund to urge the Biden administration to use its role to force the federal government, the world’s largest electricity customer, to buy 100% clean electricity, available 24/7 and locally sourced.
The Biden administration has set a goal of creating a 100% clean electricity grid by 2035 but details of that plan are yet to be clear. Higher-impact electricity procurement also aims to reduce reliance on fossil-fuel generation that supplies the grid when adequate variable renewable generation is not available and to create demand for energy storage and firm and dispatchable carbon-free resources. The proposed approach emphasizes procuring carbon-free resources from the same region as demand to ensure that local grids progress in decarbonizing.
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