Apple, Akamai, Etsy and Swiss Re get together to buy clean power

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Could co-operation between corporates simultaneously turbo-charge the renewables market and open it up to smaller energy users?

If you study lists enumerating corporate contracts to buy renewable energy, one thing becomes clear very quickly - it's tough to find a deal for less than 20MW of capacity, a factor that has discouraged...

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