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Rockefeller Foundation Announces Latest Steps to Accelerate Community-Focused Energy Transition Projects

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

SINGAPORE | May 7, 2025 ― The Rockefeller Foundation announced its latest efforts to accelerate access to clean, affordable energy in vulnerable communities living near coal-fired power plants in developing countries, as part of its Coal to Clean Credit Initiative (CCCI). During Ecosperity Week in Singapore, the Foundation’s partner ACEN Corporation, announced a new collaboration with GenZero,…

Mitsubishi DGA Transition Credits
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Mitsubishi and DGA Join ACEN, GenZero, and Keppel to Drive Energy Transition with Transition Credits

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

7 May 2025 — Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) and its subsidiary, Diamond Generating Asia, Limited (DGA), have joined ACEN, GenZero, and Keppel Ltd. (Keppel) in exploring a potential collaboration, through a pioneering effort that leverages the Transition Credits mechanism, for the early retirement and replacing the generation output of a 246 MW coal-fired power plant in…

South Pole PR
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Landmark carbon methodology launched at Ecosperity to accelerate shift from coal to clean energy

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

Singapore, 6 May, 2025 – A major breakthrough in carbon markets and climate finance was unveiled today at the Ecosperity conference with the launch of the first-ever carbon crediting methodology designed to enable the early retirement of coal power plants and their replacement with renewable energy. The methodology was developed under the Coal to Clean Credit…

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Verra launches world’s first transition credits methodology

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

By Gabrielle See | Eco-Business Verra, the world’s largest carbon credits certifier, has finalised a methodology for generating a novel class of carbon credits from retiring coal plants early and replacing them with renewables, also known as transition credits. The new rules, which had undergone two rounds of public consultation since 2023, quantify the emissions reductions from early…

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New Verra Methodology Supports Coal Phase-Out and Just Energy Transition

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

WASHINGTON May 6, 2025 — Verra has launched a cutting-edge methodology that enables the early retirement of coal-fired power plants and supports their replacement with new renewable energy. This paves the way for the clean generation of high-integrity transition credits, while ensuring that this transition is just, delivering social and economic support to affected workers and…

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ACEN CEO Eric Francia at the Economist Impact Sustainability Week Asia 2024

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

During a spotlight interview in the Economist Impact Sustainability Week Asia in Bangkok, ACEN CEO Eric Francia underscored the need to stay the course despite global policy headwinds and establish frameworks such as transition credits with an ecosystem approach to accelerate climate action. “While there is quite a bit of headwind sentiment against sustainability, I…

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The Great Energy Transition: A Future Worth Building

Bynick.villavecer@acenrenewables.com

What if we were the generation that transformed our energy future? In collaboration with DNV, ACEN presents a powerful vision of what’s possible when we choose renewables over fossil fuels. This 6-minute film isn’t fiction—it’s a glimpse of a future we can create today with existing solutions. The energy transition needs all of us. The…

CDP Discloser 2024
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ACEN achieves Leadership level in CDP’s climate change assessment

Bymacoy.bautista@acenrenewables.com

10 February 2025 – ACEN has achieved Leadership level and an A− rating for its climate actions from CDP, the global non-profit that assesses corporate environmental transparency and performance in climate change, deforestation and water security. This marks an improvement from ACEN’s previous B rating, underscoring the company’s continued commitment to climate action and transparency. To attain Leadership status, companies must demonstrate best practices in…

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ACEN joins Climate Week NYC to highlight crucial role of transition credits in early coal retirement

Bymacoy.bautista@acenrenewables.com

New York, USA, 26 September 2024 – ACEN, the Ayala group’s listed energy platform, joined this year’s Climate Week NYC, the biggest annual climate event of its kind, with leaders from the world of business, tech, politics, academia and civil society. The company’s participation reinforces its pioneering role in the coal-to-clean energy transition through the…

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Collaboration fuels ACEN’s pioneering coal-to-clean energy shift in the Philippines

Bymacoy.bautista@acenrenewables.com

By Eric Francia, ACEN president and CEO With a global climate crisis increasingly threatening human security, we must accelerate the shift towards clean energy technologies and phase out of the use of coal in electricity generation, second only to oil in the global energy mix.  Yet continued high use of the fossil fuel jeopardizes global…

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