Perhaps because of its immediate effects, purchases of green electricity tend to receive a lot of positive publicity and are viewed positively by the public. Part of this response is due to the efforts of national green electricity support programmes, such as CEPOL`s Green Power Partnership, participating organisations through rewards, initiatives, etc. A purchase of green electricity is one of the few steps you can take to produce an immediate reduction in CHARBON emissions. And it`s scalable for your immediate needs. At the bottom, you can use it to offset the energy consumption of a single laboratory or research program. On the high end, you can scale the purchase to cover the electricity consumption of the entire campus. If your electricity supplier offers a green product, managing a purchase is simple and simple. If you live in a state where electricity markets are deregulated, you can choose the green electricity provider with the best offer. Often, these products source electricity from historic suppliers from local renewable energy projects, well known and easily identifiable by local campus voters. Competitive Renewable Energy: In countries where electricity markets are competitive, research campuses can source electricity from renewable energy sources from their electricity suppliers or through competitive electricity supplies.
Green electricity is a sale of electricity produced by a local supplier or electricity supplier from renewable energy sources. ICT represents the ecological benefits of renewable energy projects; they are sold as separate goods from electricity. Green electricity and UCs are sold in megawatt-hour blocks (MWh). To convert UCs into more typical tonnes of co-carbon dioxide equivalent, you need to consider the carbon content of electrical energy on your campus. The U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) Green Power Equivalency Calculator will help you convert RECs into carbon or other units. Even after completing the most aggressive energy-saving measures, you still have some electricity consumption. Purchases of green electricity and RECs can offset this remaining demand in order to meet the objectives of your climate change plans. Purchasing green electricity or renewable energy (REC) certificates provides a campus with a relatively simple way to supply some of its electricity with renewable energy. RECS International has implemented the Renewables Good Practice (ReGP) guidance document to help end-users, market participants, policy makers and stakeholders obtain renewable electricity. The objective of RECS International is to ensure that all electricity generated from renewable sources is reliably and clearly assured of the rights associated with it.
The document contains recommendations from RECS International and its members. RecS International believes that claims can only be made reliable if the attributes of a given technology are reliably owned by a single end user and are disclosed. As electricity markets around the world allow the purchase of renewable electricity, the principles that form the basis of a reliable supply are increasingly important. The ReGP guidance document was developed by global players in the renewable energy sector and provides simple solutions and best practices for international renewable energy supply.