Dispatches from Center for Resource Solutions
By Todd Jones The clean energy world is stuck in a fight over greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting. Advocates of annual renewable energy matching, hourly matching, and consequential accounting increasingly treat each approach as mutually exclusive—sometimes even accusing one another of greenwashing or deception. But these approaches can coexist. All three approaches provide useful information, can …
Every customer has the right to know—with confidence and clarity—the sources of the electricity they have purchased and the associated emissions by Rachel Palmer The Clean Energy Accounting Project’s (CEAP’s) Best Practices for Power Source and Emissions Disclosure guidance provides a comprehensive guide for regulators, utilities, and electricity suppliers to deliver accurate, standardized power …
As we wrap up the first quarter of 2026, Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) continues to advance policies that strengthen the credibility and impact of renewable energy markets. Through ongoing work in regional and voluntary market design, CRS is helping ensure that clean energy claims remain transparent, verifiable, and aligned with evolving national and international …
We are very grateful for and extend thanks to our partners—CRS’s program participants, committee members, attendees, and stakeholders—whose engagement, advocacy, and collaboration support our mission. They share in our success. Despite some headwinds for the clean energy industry, CRS’s programmatic impact grew and included a number of bold new initiatives that promise to support …
As we move through the final quarter of 2025, CRS continues to advance policies that strengthen the credibility and impact of renewable energy markets. Across the Western region and through ongoing work in regional and voluntary market design, CRS is helping ensure that clean energy claims remain transparent, verifiable, and aligned with evolving national and …
Two new proposed requirements threaten to drive up the cost of clean power, damage markets, reduce revenue, and restrict access The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol is conducting a public consultation on the first set of proposed updates to its corporate scope 2 accounting guidance for emissions from indirect electricity, extended through January 31, 2026. …
This proposed update clarifies the “same market” criteria in the 2015 Scope 2 Guidance while ensuring that market boundaries accurately reflect how electricity is regulated and traded in practice and helps users of the Scope 2 Guidance apply the market-based method more consistently while preserving the flexibility for organizations to implement more granular geographic procurement …
Renewable energy certificates (RECs) are long-established and widely used instruments in U.S. electricity markets that enable electricity to be bought or sold as renewable. RECs are issued and tracked through regional tracking systems that collect electricity production data. RECs are recognized by the federal government and by states for use in renewable portfolio standard (RPS) …