{"id":45738,"date":"2020-12-15T05:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=45738"},"modified":"2020-12-15T05:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T19:16:36","slug":"nab-renewable-electricity-mb1799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nab-renewable-electricity-mb1799\/","title":{"rendered":"NAB Takes Another Step Towards 100% Renewable Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nab-renewables.jpg\" alt=\"National Australia Bank - renewable energy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nab-renewables.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nab-renewables-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nab-renewables-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nab-renewables-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>National Australia Bank has signed a three-year deal with Engie involving the purchase of renewable energy certificates to offset power used in all NAB&#8217;s Australian branches.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In November last year, NAB boosted its renewable energy goals from 50% to 100% by 2025 and became a member of RE100, an initiative bringing together major corporations committed to using 100% renewable electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement yesterday, NAB said will buy large-scale generation certificates (\u201cLGCs\u201d) generated from wind and solar farms in Engie&#8217;s renewable portfolio. NAB will purchase enough certificates by the end of next year to meet the electricity needs of its network of over 600 branches. Looking further ahead, approximately 80% of NAB\u2019s Australian buildings&#8217; electricity consumption will be offset with renewable energy by 2023 &#8211;\u00a0 equivalent to all branches, business banking centres, offices and half of NAB&#8217;s data centres\u2019 consumption.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We already have around 70 branches where solar panels produce up to half of each sites\u2019 electricity requirements,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nab.com.au\/news_room_posts\/nab-to-source-100-per-cent-renewable-electricity-for-branches-by-2021\/?utm_source=miragenews&amp;utm_medium=miragenews&amp;utm_campaign=news\">said<\/a> NAB Personal Banking Group Executive Rachel Slade. &#8220;This builds on our Victorian branches already being supplied by wind power.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>NAB And Renewables Lending<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to its renewable electricity commitment for NAB operations, National Australia Bank claims it is also the leading financier to the Australian renewable energy market, with renewables making up 72% of its power generation lending exposures.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAB&#8217;s 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nab.com.au\/content\/dam\/nabrwd\/documents\/reports\/corporate\/2020-sustainability-report-pdf.pdf\">Sustainability Report<\/a>, it financed an additional 4,303 MW of installed renewable energy generation capacity this year. This included finance for wind and solar assets in Australia, US and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>As for coal power:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our exposure to an existing Australian coal-fired power generation was paid out, reducing our exposure to coal-fired power in the PF portfolio to zero (down from 0.2% in 2019).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, not everyone has been happy with the bank&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>MarketForces said last month NAB\u2019s exposure to gas-fired power generation increased by 4% in the year to September 2020, from $0.94 billion to $0.98 billion. This saw NAB again the most exposed major Australia bank MarketForces said, well ahead of Westpac&#8217;s $0.67 billion, Commonwealth Bank&#8217;s $0.6 billion, and ANZ&#8217;s $0.14 billion.<\/p>\n<p>MarketForces also noted NAB recently loaned US$50 million to Santos, a company whose projects including its controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/narrabri-csg-approval-mb1775\/\">Narrabri Gas Project<\/a> that was recently given the final regulatory green light it needed to proceed.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Mealy Mouthed&#8221; On Thermal Coal Exit<\/h2>\n<p>In its full year results presentation released last month, NAB stated it expects to exit thermal coal mining by 2030, five years earlier than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/nab-renewables-coal-mb1294\/\">official commitment made last year<\/a>.\u00a0This is also mentioned on NAB&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nab.com.au\/about-us\/social-impact\/environment\/climate-change\">climate change page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While good news, this also drew MarketForces&#8217; 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