Comments on the CPS Straw Proposal presented on April 2, 2019. Comments pertain to avoiding potential double-counting with RECs and ensuring regulatory surplus for the voluntary renewable energy market, as well as verifying that qualified energy storage systems store and discharge renewable energy.

CRS comments on draft regulations to update California’s Power Source Disclosure requirements under Assembly Bill 1110 (Ting), which requires that retail suppliers of electricity disclose to consumers the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of the supplier’s electric service products.

Comments on the December 12, 2018 LEED for Cities and Communities: Existing (Beta) rating system, regarding the “EN Credit: Clean and Green Power” and the “EN Prerequisite: Energy Performance.”

Responses to questions for stakeholders regarding how DOER should interpret the requirement that a Qualified Energy Storage System operate “primarily to store and discharge renewable energy,” and how resources participating in other state programs should interact with the CPS.

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This is the Chinese version of Accelerating Corporate Renewable Energy Engagement In China.

While there are many new and existing mechanisms in China that enable companies to access renewable energy, the Chinese voluntary market is still early in its development, and much more can be done to create market conditions that facilitate a significant scale-up of private investment. This report, released by CRS with funding by Google, LLC., …

CRS’s Green-e® certification programs certified over 62 million megawatt-hours in retail transactions in 2018, representing an overall increase of 4% compared to 2017 sales. This is the highest number of certified retail MWh to date, and enough to power over half of U.S. households for a month.

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Over 135 million people worldwide are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance because of conflict and climate impacts, with more than 68 million forcibly displaced in 2017. Record numbers of refugees are stretching resources, and global institutions are struggling to respond. At the same time, many of the countries at greatest risk of conflict also …