{"id":258837,"date":"2026-05-29T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/large-load-customers-can-help-commercialize-new-clean-energy-technology-ceba\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:10:19","slug":"large-load-customers-can-help-commercialize-new-clean-energy-technology-ceba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/large-load-customers-can-help-commercialize-new-clean-energy-technology-ceba\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-load customers can help commercialize new clean energy technology: CEBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/innovative-customer-utility-agreements-derisk-new-technology-ceba\/821402\/\">Large-load customers can help commercialize new clean energy technology: CEBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/innovative-customer-utility-agreements-derisk-new-technology-ceba\/821402\/\">https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/innovative-customer-utility-agreements-derisk-new-technology-ceba\/821402\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 12:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.utilitydive.com\">www.utilitydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">4 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>As large-load customers increasingly look to power their operations with new clean firm technologies like advanced geothermal and small modular nuclear reactors, clean energy tariffs, as well as bilateral customer-utility arrangements, are helping to commercialize and de-risk the deployment of these technologies, the Corporate Energy Buyers Association said in a May 21 report.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cThe goal is to try and get some of these technologies closer to commercialization, and then we&#8217;d see costs shift down, like we did with solar and wind,\u201d lead report author Priya Barua, CEBA&#8217;s senior director of utility partnerships and innovation, told Utility Dive. \u201cI think we&#8217;re in that phase with that next wave of technologies.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Clean energy tariffs \u201callow large customers to identify, fund, and support specific clean or clean firm resources,\u201d the report said, \u201cwithin existing regulatory frameworks, pairing customer-driven investment with strong ratepayer protections.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Hyperscalers are spending aggressively on the AI race, including the construction of data centers and the energy needed to power them. The five largest hyperscalers \u2014 Google, Meta, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft \u2014 are expected to cross <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>$1 trillion in capital expenditures this year<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>, according to venture capital and private equity firm Bessemer Venture Partners, and $8 trillion total between 2025 and 2031.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Those five companies also \u201crepresented 49% of all corporate clean energy [power purchase agreements] globally in 2025,\u201d the CEBA report said, \u201cwith a growing share of investments in nuclear, hydropower, and geothermal.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>These investments include a PPA between Microsoft and&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/innovative-customer-utility-agreements-derisk-new-technology-ceba\/821402\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large-load customers can help commercialize new clean energy technology: CEBA https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/innovative-customer-utility-agreements-derisk-new-technology-ceba\/821402\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-29 12:08:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/IzorKxHLZSz5ojtmz4vRCgjGa9r6Wa7FtJq8IDhZIAA\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9jYXBlLXN0YXRpb24tYmVhdmVyLWNvdW50eS5qcGc=.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,62,65,129],"class_list":["post-258837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-innovation","tag-nuclear","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258839,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258837\/revisions\/258839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}