CNET

Renewable Energy Certificates: How You Can Prove How Green You Are

If you've seen an individual, company or organization claiming to be powered by green or renewable energy, it's thanks to renewable energy certificates, otherwise known as RECs. The problem is that ...
Yahoo

State AGs probe Big Tech’s use of renewable energy certificates

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Renewable Energy Certificates Considered ‘Ineffective’ by Some Experts

Experts at Concordia University claim that renewable energy certificates (RECs) are "ineffective" in limiting major companies' carbon footprint worldwide. Renewable Energy Certificates, Ineffective in ...
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Duke Energy Florida's new renewable energy certificates program offers customers, businesses more options to reach their sustainability goals

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Duke Energy Florida today announced Clean Energy Impact, its newest renewable energy certificates (RECs) program, is now available to customers ...

Microsoft ends use of controversial green energy credits as AI emissions rise

Microsoft’s carbon footprint jumped 25% last year, but the widely reported 34-million-ton figure is inaccurate. The raw ...
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S&P Global Commodity Insights Launches First Platts Renewable Energy Certificate Price Assessments for Brazil, India and Turkey

New Platts Global I-REC price assessments to augment pricing transparency for the burgeoning market of certified renewable power generation "The global nature of the energy transition makes extension ...
PV Tech

renewable energy certificate

Google will purchase renewable energy certificates from a 600MW solar and energy storage portfolio in the US state of South Carolina. Under the deal, SFK will purchase a portion of the RECs from the ...
Los Angeles Times

Organizers of the Winter Games made clean energy a priority. Here’s how

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics organizers pledged that virtually all electricity for venues would come ...
The Verge

New research points to bad math behind corporate renewable energy claims

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is ...
Business Insider

Inside the opaque $6 billion market for renewable-energy 'certificates,' where dozens of companies buy and sell the right to call your electricity clean

True or false: Energy that comes from a wind farm or solar plant is renewable? Technically, it depends. Some energy from rooftop solar panels isn't clean. And not all electrons churned out by wind ...
Reuters

Singapore to launch standards for renewable energy certificates

SINGAPORE, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Singapore plans to launch standardised guidelines for renewable energy certificates, part of efforts to decarbonise its power sector and develop a regional grid, a ...