Letter to WCI Electricity and Markets Committees on the role of RECs in mandatory GHG reporting and compliance protocols

The Center for Resource Solutions urges the WCI Partners, the Electricity Committee and Markets Committee to reconsider and rescind the recently released recommendation that renewable energy certificates (RECs) have no role in mandatory GHG reporting and compliance protocols. If implemented, this recommendation would strip the zero-emission attribute from renewable energy certificates (RECs) and destabilize the …

Green-e Marketplace Case Study: Codero Inc.

This Green-e Marketplace Case Study on Codero, a webhost in Overland Park, KS, examines the company’s environmental initiatives, including purchasing certified renewable energy for 100 percent of its electricity use.

WeCAN Comments on the 4/14/10 WCI Auction Design White Paper

Comments and recommendations submitted on the WCI’s Market Design Committee’s whitepaper by the WeCAN Markets and Cap Setting and Allowance Distribution Committees, pertaining to the disposition of unsold allowances and general auction design.

Letter from CRS to Kevin Kennedy, CARB Office of Climate Change on how to distribute allowances under a CA C&T program

This letter expresses CRS’s view on off-the top as well as other allocation issues. We express our view that CARB’s proposed approach to allowance distribution would be an unfortunate overreaction to emission leakage concerns, and resulting overcompensation of carbon emitters would represent a lost opportunity to bolster the emerging clean energy economy that can contribute …