Five of the largest consumer brands companies in the US – Cargill, General Mills, Nestle, P&G and Unilever – are calling on US regulators to improve transmission planning that would boost electric grid resilience and respond to growing demand for renewable energy.
In a 9 May letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), they highlighted the growing global trend of corporate commitments to procure renewable energy, driven mainly by recent sharp declines in cost and by the price certainty that long-term power purchase agreements offer.
