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…U.S. households for a month, or 1% of the total U.S. electricity mix. Over half of the installed wind capacity in the U.S. is participating in Green-e Energy certified transactions….
…renewable energy generation purchased by over 583,000 residential and 66,000 commercial customers in 2010. This represented over 65% of all retail renewable energy sales in the voluntary market in 2010.…
…must first determine what constitutes a claim. Some claims are explicit and easy to identify. Others, however, can be simply implied or even unintentional. This paper identifies some typical types…
…18 Million MWh purchased by over 545,000 residential and 37,000 commercial customers in 2009. This represented over 60% of all retail renewable energy sales in the voluntary market in 2009….
This Green-e Marketplace Case Study on Tom Arma Studios examines the studio’s environmental actions, including how its purchase of renewable energy fits with its overall sustainability goals….
Updated in August 2018, the Guide to Purchasing Green Power remains the essential resource for renewable energy buyers to understand their options and impact. The Guide provides current and potential…
…they overlap and avoid any double counting of carbon benefits or claims. The paper, which CRS assisted in drafting, examines REC tracking systems, GHG project registries, and GHG inventory systems….
…to selling and claiming RECs from such systems. Though the paper focuses mainly on PV, many of the issues discussed below pertain to other types of distributed generation as well….