In December of 2007, the Green-e Marketplace team conducted a survey of all current program participants to gather information to help us enhance the understanding of what drew clients to Green-e and what their current and future plans for logo use are.

These comments detail and explain several issues concerning the unintended impacts an emissions cap could have on the voluntary renewable energy market, as well as disincentives it could impose on energy efficiency efforts voluntarily undertaken by citizens and business. The comments additionally presents ideas on how some of these issues can be effectively addressed in …

Poster presentation for AWEA Windpower 2009 Conference by Andreas Karelas on community choice aggregation programs in Berkeley and Marin County

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Comments, Questions, and Recommendations for the WCI CSAD committee on Data review and collection, Competitiveness Analysis, Offsets compliance limit, and Early Reduction Allowances.

California Energy Commission Staff Workshop on 2006 RPS Procurement Verification Data Review, Comments of CRS Regarding RPS Procurement; Attachment B: Questions Regarding Outstanding RPS Procurement Claims

Comments relating to the establishment of the cap in California’s cap-and-trade program. We are troubled by CARB’s proposal to set the cap in 2012 at the level of expected actual emissions, i.e. a level that achieves no reductions. The implication of setting the cap at expected actual emissions is that the price of allowances will …

Letter commenting on issues relating to emissions leakage in a California cap-and-trade program. Minimizing the shifting of emissions out of California in a way that reduces the net decrease in global greenhouse gas emissions due to California’s programs is a statutory requirement of AB 32 and an important design objective in any cap-and-trade program. And …

Climate policy in California has been at the forefront in the North American effort to fight global warming. California has been a leader in energy policy for decades. The paper explores the state’s energy policy over the past few decades, as well as the economic, psychological, and institutional factors that support the emerging best practice. …

Without careful design, cap and trade could hinder the voluntary market for renewable energy. The voluntary market has played an important role in advancing clean energy development in large part because socially responsible organizations and individuals want to help fight global warming. Cap and trade should include an off-the-top rule to account for voluntary renewable …