Renewable Electricity Procurement Strategy

Turning Electricity Sourcing into a Competitive Advantage

Electricity sourcing is one of the most visible indicators of climate progress and a major cost driver. With frameworks such as SBTi and RE100 raising expectations, companies must prove their electricity is verifiably renewable while keeping costs efficient.

Renewable markets vary by region and procurement mechanisms evolve quickly. Without a structured strategy, companies risk compliance gaps, unnecessary costs and inconsistent reporting.

Partner with STRIVE to Design a Future-Proof Procurement Strategy

STRIVE by STX helps organizations move from one-off renewable purchases to structured strategies that balance complexity, risk, cost, sustainability impact and compliance.

We combine financial modeling, regulatory insight and market intelligence to design a renewable electricity roadmap tailored to your location, footprint, budget and objectives, whether its additionality, granularity or cost efficiency.

Through STX Group’s global trading network, we connect you to verified instruments such as PPAs, EACs, Green Tariffs, Onsite Solar PV or Transferable Tax Credits in the U.S, ensuring your strategy is actionable.

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How We Work

Understand Your Electricity Consumption

Analyze your company’s consumption patterns to identify opportunities for renewable energy integration and optimize your transition to clean power.

Define objectives

Define the success criteria for the strategy by identifying objectives, organizational preferences and boundaries in renewable electricity procurement, such as risk appetite, possible contract lengths, accounting methods or strategic locations.

Evaluate Renewable Electricity Availability

Investigate the availability of each renewable electricity instrument such as EACs, PPAs and Onsite Solar PV across your countries of operation.

Conduct Financial Analysis

Perform in-depth financial modeling to assess costs, capital requirements and potential returns, ensuring the most cost-effective procurement strategy. Review incentive schemes to ensure maximization of potential benefits.

Complement with Analyzing Tradeoffs

To understand key tradeoffs and align the procurement strategy with objectives, complement the financial analysis by assessing complexity, risk, green value (additionality, granularity) and policy frameworks.

Develop an Implementation Plan

Create a step-by-step roadmap with actionable milestones that align your renewable electricity strategy with corporate sustainability and financial goals.

Why STRIVE

Strategic Market Expertise

Integrated Solutions

Regulatory and Market Insight

Global Market Backbone

Our consultants combine energy, financial and policy knowledge to design renewable procurement strategies that balance cost, complexity, risk, compliance and impact.

We connect your sourcing strategy with verified market mechanisms such as PPAs, VPPAs and EACs for seamless implementation.

We track evolving frameworks like SBTi, CSRD, RE100 and CDP to ensure your renewable electricity strategy remains future-proof.

Leveraging STX Group’s global presence, we provide access to verified certificates and real-time trading data across multiple registries.

Ready to Take Action?

Build a renewable electricity procurement strategy that balances sustainability, compliance and cost efficiency.

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FAQS

What is a renewable electricity procurement strategy?

It’s a structured approach to sourcing renewable electricity through mechanisms PPAs, EACs, Green Tariffs, Onsite Solar PV or Transferable Tax Credits in the U.S to meet sustainability and compliance goals while ensuring cost efficiency and strategic fit.

Why do companies need a renewable electricity strategy?

Without a clear plan, organizations risk compliance gaps and higher costs, especially as voluntary standards like GHG-P are evolving towards more granularity. A defined strategy ensures renewable sourcing aligns with organizational priorities and objectives, as well as voluntary frameworks and regulations, while optimizing market timing and reporting.

How does STRIVE support renewable electricity procurement?

We combine market insight, financial modeling and regulatory expertise to design renewable sourcing strategies that balance complexity, risk, cost, sustainability impact and compliance.