Clean Energy Deal Tracker

The first three months of the year brought innovations in the types of energy resources contracted, with an uptick in corporate interest in geothermal.

The fourth quarter brought the addition of 3.1 gigawatts of clean energy capacity from U.S. companies.

The major corporate renewable energy deals announced in the third quarter of 2021 tracked higher than the year-earlier period, but well below contracts announced for the same period in 2019.

The capacity of new renewable energy contracts disclosed by U.S. companies topped 3.2 gigawatts, beating last year's activity.

A sleepy but respectable start after a blockbuster fourth quarter.

It was a lockbuster fourth quarter, with more than 7.3 gigawatts of contracts inked — more than any other single quarter since the start of the GreenBiz deal tracker. 

This quarter, several corporate procurement announcements were coupled with broader environmental, social and governance considerations. 

Almost 2.5 gigawatts of new procurement contracts were inked in the quarter, featuring a mix of the usual suspects and new players.

But this may be the last stretch of typical clean energy procurement activity in a while.