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Howard University Announces 20-Year Energy Partnership with ENGIE North America

Howard University, a leading HBCU, partners with ENGIE North America, a leading energy services provider.

 

HOUSTON – ENGIE North America announced today that it has solidified its relationship with Howard University, one of the nation’s premiere HBCUs, by executing a long-term agreement for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of a new central utility plant on Howard’s campus located in Washington, D.C.  

The new central utility plant will provide both electric and steam services for buildings on campus.  Under this agreement, ENGIE will design and construct the new plant and once complete, provide operations and maintenance services over the next 20 years. This long-term partnership will result in safe, reliable operation and resilient service for Howard’s students, faculty and other stakeholders, while at the same time reducing the campus’ carbon footprint and furthering Howard’s energy efficiency goals. ENGIE plans to begin construction in late-February with expected completion in late 2022. 

The new, modern steam plant will be a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, which will generate 35-40 percent of the University’s electric consumption on site. This technology produces a single source of energy that generates electricity or power at the point of use and utilizes exhaust heat that would normally be lost in the generation process to be recovered and recycled to produce steam.  

After managing numerous challenges related to its aging energy distribution infrastructure, the University sought a new solution in 2018 that would completely overhaul the existing central utility plant. ENGIE worked alongside the University on a feasibility study that included a site investigation and recommendations for near-term and long-term solutions for the system. The shared goal was to develop a cost-effective, energy solution to ensure safe operations and eliminate the risk of future campus closures stemming from problems with campus utilities.  

“Guided by our shared “Howard Forward” strategic vision, Howard is taking a proactive approach to strategizing and modernizing the University’s aging steam plant. Our partnership with ENGIE, to address one of the campus’ more critical infrastructural risks, will not only move our existing steam plant into the 21st century, but provide a blueprint for other HBCUs in their efforts to reduce vulnerabilities and become more energy efficient,” said Howard’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tashni-Ann Dubroy, Ph.D. 

“Howard University is an incredible leader in the constellation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the United States,” said Serdar Tüfekçi, Head of Large Campus Partnerships at ENGIE North America Inc. “It is fitting that Howard University has taken this bold step to lead towards the energy transition. ENGIE North America is proud to serve the community’s long-term vision of creating a utility system that is resilient, reliable and affordable for the University and its stakeholders.”  

 
About Howard University  

Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue more than 140 programs of study leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. The University operates with a commitment to Excellence in Truth and Service and has produced one Schwarzman Scholar, three Marshall Scholars, four Rhodes Scholars, 11 Truman Scholars, 25 Pickering Fellows and more than 165 Fulbright recipients. Howard also produces more on-campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, visit www.howard.edu.  

About ENGIE North America 

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees worldwide, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress. For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

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President Biden announces new executive actions to tackle the climate crisis

I was excited to hear yesterday that President Biden has taken significant action on the climate crisis and signed three executive orders committed to creating an equitable clean energy future, building sustainable infrastructure and jobs, and ensuring scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking. The orders’ ambitious goals align closely with our own purpose of creating a carbon-neutral future and include achieving a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and a net-zero economy by 2050.

 

This action also takes a “whole-of-government” approach and establishes the White House Office of Domestic Climate policy, led by the country’s first-ever National Climate Advisor, and catalyzes the creation of jobs in manufacturing, construction and engineering to accelerate clean energy projects in an environmentally sustainable manner. This includes directing federal agencies to procure carbon pollution-free electricity and zero-emission vehicles to promote clean-energy jobs and stimulate clean-energy industries. 

This new push towards bolstering clean-energy industries, reducing climate pollution and building a sustainable infrastructure reinforces the work we are doing here at ENGIE. We will be keeping a close eye on the evolution and implementation of these orders and are enthusiastic about the benchmarks that have been established. I look forward to the increased investment in alternative energy and clean-energy solutions that we will see in the coming years. 

– Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet, CEO ENGIE North America

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Climb aboard Energy Observer, a renewable energy lab. Now On-Demand!

Join an exclusive event with Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet, CEO of ENGIE North America on Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 11 AM CT to come aboard the Energy Observer. It is the world’s first hydrogen-powered boat and floating laboratory – and see the innovations in progress to make renewable energy a reality for all. We will have 3 members of the crew with us, including the Founder and Captain, Victorien Erussard, to take all your questions.

 

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ENGIE North America adds nearly 2 GW of Renewable Energy in the U.S. in 2020

The additional clean energy offsets 2.1 Million Metric Tons of Carbon

 

Houston, TX. – ENGIE North America today announced it has added nearly 2 GW of renewable energy to the U.S. in 2020, as part of ENGIE’s commitment to deliver 9 GW of renewable energy capacity globally between 2019 and 2021. These new clean energy capacities will offset nearly 2.1 million metric tons of carbon and bring ENGIE’s renewables capacity to more than 3 GW in North America – enough to power 1.3 million homes. 

The six grid-scale wind projects and two grid-scale solar projects contributed to the company’s record pace of renewable energy development and construction. These projects are located in Texas, Kansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma. With the completion of these projects, adding 1.4 GW of wind and 0.4 GW of solar, and other projects in the U.S. and Canada, ENGIE now has more than 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in North America developed over the past two years.

“This was a historic year of construction for ENGIE North America,” said Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet, Executive Vice President responsible for the ENGIE Renewables’ business line and CEO of ENGIE North America. “The rapid growth of our renewable energy footprint in the United States demonstrates ENGIE’s commitment to achieving a carbon-neutral future. With more than 10 GW of additional renewable energy projects currently under way in North America, we are just getting started in delivering on our mission to connect society and companies to clean, affordable, innovative, and resilient energy generation and the infrastructure to support it.”

Globally in 2020, ENGIE commissioned 3 GW of new renewable capacity, bringing its total portfolio to 31 GW of gross renewable energy capacity – consisting of hydroelectric (~57%) as well as wind and solar (~43%). Renewables account for 30% of ENGIE’s gross power generation capacity worldwide (101 GW).
 

The projects developed and built by ENGIE North America in 2020 in the U.S. include:   

Wind Projects:

  • East Fork, 196 MW, Thomas County, Kansas 
  • Las Lomas, 202 MW, Starr and Zapata Counties, Texas
  • Jumbo Hill, 161 MW, Andrews County, Texas
  • Triple H, 250 MW, Hyde County, South Dakota
  • King Plains, 248 MW, Garfield & Noble Counties, Oklahoma 
  • Prairie Hill, 300 MW, Limestone and McLennan Counties, Texas    
     

Solar Projects:

  • Anson, 200 MW, Jones County, Texas
  • Long Draw, 225 MW, Borden County, Texas
     

These projects contributed more than 3,000 construction jobs across 8 counties and 100 well-paying jobs in rural communities throughout the heartland in the United States.  

The renewable energy resources of these projects have been contracted with several iconic companies in the retail, food and beverage, technology, and educational sectors.  
 

About ENGIE North America 

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress. For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

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Biggest Renewables Project of 2020 Completes Construction

After more than 400,000 hours of work, construction is now complete on the Prairie Hill wind farm, ENGIE North America’s largest renewables project of 2020. The 100-turbine wind farm generates enough energy at peak production to power the equivalent of 60,000 homes, and adds 300 MW of power towards our goal of adding 2 GW in the U.S.

 

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ENGIE announces 650 MW of renewable energy offtake contracts with Amazon

Houston, Texas – Today, ENGIE announces several energy offtake contracts with Amazon for a global renewable energy portfolio of wind and solar projects across the United States, Italy and France totaling 650 MW. These Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) will exclusively rely upon renewable energy production facilities developed by ENGIE. For ENGIE, this operation is the largest portfolio of agreements signed at once with a single counterparty.

 

These projects align with Amazon’s goal to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2030 and reach net zero carbon by 2040. They also demonstrate ENGIE’s expertise across the green energy value chain, from the construction and operation of renewable energy plants, to the sale of energy to industrial customers. In 2019, ENGIE was the #1 global seller of clean energy Corporate PPAs and signed over 2,000 MW mostly in the US but also in Europe, notably in Spain.

In the United States, Amazon’s new renewable energy solar and wind projects with ENGIE represent 569 MW in Delaware, Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. They will supply Amazon with approximately 1,850 GWh of power and with the associated project renewable energy credits (REC’s) annually. During construction, ENGIE will create approximately 300 jobs at each wind facility and 210 jobs at each solar facility. Projects are expected to reach commercial operation in 2021 through 2022.

In Europe, Amazon’s total contracts with ENGIE add up to 66 MW in Italy and 15 MW in France, and are the company’s first utility-scale renewable energy projects in each country. Amazon will purchase renewable energy from two solar facilities located in Southern Italy and another in Southern France to power its European operations.  

“These new projects with ENGIE represent our first utility-scale renewable energy projects in Italy and France in Europe and our first projects in Delaware and Kansas in the United States. They substantially help us on our path to powering our operations with 100 percent renewable energy by 2030,” said Nat Sahlstrom, Director, Amazon Energy. “Working with ENGIE, we are able to add 650 MW of new power to grids in the US and Europe. Our push for more renewable energy is one step toward our goal of reaching net-zero carbon by 2040 as part of Amazon’s commitment to The Climate Pledge.”

“These contracts demonstrate ENGIE’s capabilities to commercialize green energy internationally for our customers. And in North America – as elsewhere – we recognize that bold commitments are needed from global companies and local communities alike to lead the way to clean energy use,” said Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet, ENGIE’s Executive Vice President in charge of the Renewables Business Line and CEO of ENGIE North America. “We are excited to work with Amazon to create a clean, prosperous, low carbon future – and create economic benefits for the communities involved.”

 

About ENGIE  

Our group is a global leader in low-carbon energy and services. Our goal is to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world by reducing power consumption and providing the most environmentally aware solutions, combining financial profitability with a positive impact on people and the planet. We apply our key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to provide competitive solutions for our clients. Our 170,000 employees, clients, partners and stakeholders represent a community of Imaginative Builders, committed to a more balanced daily progress.  

Business volume in 2019: €60.1 billion. The group is listed in the Paris and Brussels (ENGI) exchanges and is also included in the top financial indices (CAC 40, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe), as well as non-financial indices (DJSI World, DJSI Europe and Euronext Vigeo Eiris – World 120, Eurozone 120, Europe 120, France 20, CAC 40 Governance). 

About ENGIE North America 

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress. For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

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ENGIE North America partners with Hannon Armstrong to secure $172 million of investment for distributed solar-plus-storage portfolio

HOUSTON, Texas and ANNAPOLIS, Md. – ENGIE North America and Hannon Armstrong (NYSE:HASI), a leading investor in climate change solutions, announce a new partnership to jointly invest in a Distributed Generation (DG) portfolio of solar and solar-plus-storage assets located across the United States.

 

The portfolio is comprised of a diversified set of community solar and commercial & industrial (C&I) ground-mounted, carport and rooftop solar and solar-plus-storage projects (around 70 MW in total) located across the U.S., including Massachusetts, Illinois, Vermont, California, Texas, and Arizona.  

“ENGIE is pleased to partner with Hannon Armstrong on this portfolio, which further demonstrates ENGIE’s leadership and strong commitment to climate action goals towards its clients. This new partnership reinforces the ambitions of our organizations,” said Gwenaëlle Avice-Huet, Executive Vice President, in charge of the Renewable and Hydrogen Business Units France, responsible for the Global Renewable Business Line and CEO of the North America Business Unit. “This program signals further forward momentum as we work alongside our customers towards a carbon neutral future.” 

“We are delighted to expand our programmatic relationship with ENGIE with this latest agreement,” said Hannon Armstrong Chairman and CEO Jeffrey W. Eckel. “This partnership highlights one of the key strengths of our historic core value proposition to clients of executing on scalable investment solutions for smaller, distributed clean energy projects that are essential to a climate-positive future.” 

The agreement will allow ENGIE to rely on committed capital by Hannon Armstrong through December 31, 2021 to finance DG assets across the U.S. ENGIE will retain partial ownership and provide development, construction, operational, asset management, and administrative services. Hannon Armstrong will provide capital to ENGIE through a unique structure that will bring efficiency to a forward flow of projects, leveraging tax equity financing through an upper-tier arrangement with Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS). Hannon Armstrong’s collaboration with Morgan Stanley on this portfolio represents an expansion of the firms’ relationship in recognition of Morgan Stanley becoming the first U.S. bank to commit to disclosing portfolio greenhouse gas emissions and backing the push toward unified measurement of financed emissions via the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF). 

Distributed generation represents an important piece of ENGIE’s U.S. solar-plus-storage market strategy as it represents a sizable share of the overall non-residential solar-plus-storage market. Distributed clean energy generation, including the community solar projects included in the portfolio, foster access to renewable energy and is a key component of the clean energy targets and ambitions of cities, communities, corporate and utility customers. ENGIE currently owns and operates approximately 300 MW of DG solar assets. 

About ENGIE North America 

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress. For more information on ENGIE North America, please visit our LinkedIn page or Twitter feed, www.engie-na.com and www.engie.com.

About Hannon Armstrong  

Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI) is the first U.S. public company solely dedicated to investments in climate change solutions, providing capital to leading companies in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other sustainable infrastructure markets. With more than $6 billion in managed assets as of September 30, 2020, Hannon Armstrong’s core purpose is to make climate-positive investments with superior risk-adjusted returns. For more information, please visit www.hannonarmstrong.com. Follow Hannon Armstrong on LinkedIn and Twitter @HannonArmstrong. 

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Niagara Bottling, LLC Partners with ENGIE North America to Make Clear Statement on Sustainability

December 03, 2020 – Houston, TX. Niagara Bottling LLC today announced a retail renewable energy agreement with ENGIE Resources from ENGIE North America’s Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects in Texas. The contract goes through 2031. Niagara Bottling will purchase 100% of its electricity, approximately 167,000 MWh annually, from the Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects for its Texas bottling operations. Niagara locations across Texas produce tea, bottled water and vitamin-enhanced water beverages.

 

The renewable energy in this agreement represents environmental benefits equal to either the removal of more than 24,000 passenger motor vehicles each year from highways over the span of the contract, or the elimination of 123 million pounds of coal burned each year.

Niagara will also achieve budget certainty throughout the term of this agreement with a fixed price structure in a simple retail contract with flexible terms.

“As a family owned company, our priority is the health of our team members, our communities and our environment,” said Andrew Peykoff II, President and CEO of Niagara Bottling. “We are committed to responsible resource usage and integrating sustainability into every aspect of our business. ENGIE plays an important role to help us continuously innovate and reduce our carbon footprint.”

“Niagara Bottling is a true success story, built on values we share including integrity and efficiency,” said Sayun Sukduang, Chief Supply Officer for ENGIE North America. “We’re proud to provide a solution that meets all of Niagara’s energy, environmental and economic criteria.”

ENGIE North America is the developer, owner, and operator of the Prairie Hill and Live Oak wind projects.  Prairie Hill is a 300 MW project that is located in Limestone and McLennan counites in Texas. Live Oak (which is owned in partnership with an affiliate of John Laing Group plc) is a 200 MW project that is located near San Angelo, Texas.  Both projects contribute to ENGIE’s rapid expansion in renewables, with an ambition to build approximately 9,000 MW of new renewable energy projects from 2019-2021 globally. ENGIE is building 2 GW of new renewable energy projects in North America this year and has an additional 10,000 MW of wind and solar projects in its broader development pipeline in the U.S. and Canada.

 

 

Prairie Hill wind project
Prairie Hill wind project

 

 

About Niagara Bottling, LLC

Niagara Bottling, LLC has been family owned and operated since 1963. Headquartered in Diamond Bar, CA, Niagara operates bottling facilities throughout the U.S. and Mexico.  As a leading manufacturer in the U.S., Niagara Bottling works closely with some of the largest retailers, grocers, club and convenience stores through the country. Niagara produces a variety of beverages including bottled water, sparkling, vitamin and flavored waters, teas and sports drinks.

 

About ENGIE North America

ENGIE North America Inc. offers a range of capabilities in the United States and Canada to help customers decarbonize, decentralize and digitalize their operations. These include comprehensive services to help customers run their facilities more efficiently and optimize energy and other resource use and expense; clean power generation; energy storage; and retail energy supply that includes renewable, demand response, and on-bill financing options. Nearly 100% of the company’s power generation portfolio is low carbon or renewable. Globally, ENGIE S.A. relies on their key businesses (gas, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to customers. With 170,000 employees, customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.

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Laura Beane, Chief Renewables Officer, spoke at Reuters Energy Transition North America

Laura joined two other influential women leaders in clean energy for a fireside chat to explore the future of renewables, the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion, and the potential impact of the U.S. election on energy and climate policy. Laura is member of the executive speaker faculty of Reuters Events.

 

Watch the virtual fireside chat

 

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Our inaugural CSR Report wins the Southern Region Silver Quill Award

International Association of Business Communicators​ acknowledges ENGIE North American’s 2019 Corporate Sustainability Report​ with Corporate Writing prize.

 

In partnership with Fuse5, ENGIE North America won a Southern Region Silver Quill Award for corporate writing with our 2019 Corporate Responsibility Report.  The International Association of Business Communicators awards acknowledge excellence in professional communications. Southern Region’s annual awards competition, Silver Quill, is the chance for regional communication professionals to step up and be recognized for their work. 

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