Carbon Emissions as a Financing Tool. A 1MW solar project near Jackson TN developed by a company called Clearloop (www.clearloop.us). It is the first utility-scale solar project in the country (August 2021) to be partially financed by selling the carbon emissions it will displace over its lifetime. Clearloop raised $400,000 – one-third of the project’s total cost – via the sale of carbon offsets for 60 million pounds (30,000 tons) of carbon emissions. Details at “The New Science of Siting Clean Energy to Push More Carbon From the Grid”. 9/20/21. www.canarymedia.com
