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Accounting For Utility-Scale Clean Energy Storage: Background Report

Utility-scale electricity storage is expanding rapidly and becoming integral to grid operations, renewable energy integration, and corporate decarbonization strategies. It enables the time-shifting of electricity supply, enhances the value of variable renewable generation, and supports system reliability. But storage also decouples the timing of generation, consumption, and delivery; introduces conversion and auxiliary losses; and is …

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Hourly Clean Energy Utility Product Designs: Nine Product Model Examples

CRS’s Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP)’s Hourly Clean Energy Utility Product Designs: Nine Product Model Examples helps vertically integrated utilities in the United States design credible, customer-focused hourly clean electricity products. The guidance includes nine of the most practical Product Model options organized by complexity and risk to the utility, equipping utilities to offer a …

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Best Practices for Power Source & Emissions Disclosure

Clear power source disclosure helps customers understand what electricity they are buying and the emissions associated with it. CEAP’s new Best Practices for Power Source and Emissions Disclosure offers a practical U.S. framework for more accurate, transparent, and comparable electricity disclosures. The guidance recommends product-specific disclosure; accounting based on delivered attributes rather than utility-wide averages; …

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Developer Insights on Financial Modeling to Describe Renewable Energy Certificate Impacts

This report by Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D. is the result of a series of interviews in 2023 of renewable energy market stakeholders and follow-up interviews in 2024 with four large renewable energy developers about the financial impact of renewable energy certificates (RECs) on project development. The interviews highlighted that common financial models underestimate how RECs influence …

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Indicators of Clean Electricity Procurement That Drive New Supply

Voluntary clean electricity procurement plays a critical role in accelerating the energy transition—but a lack of consensus on what kind of individual purchases directly drive or have an increased indirect impact on new clean energy and maintaining existing clean energy has led to market fragmentation and uncertainty for buyers and investors. This CEAP initiative produced …

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Developer Insights on Financial Modeling to Describe Renewable Energy Certificate Impacts

Indicators of Clean Electricity Procurement That Drive New Supply

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