Carbon Offsets/RECs
Carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates (RECs) are available to help companies meet regulatory and corporate sustainability goals for reducing their carbon footprint. Each REC is equivalent to a single megawatt-hour of electricity generated by a renewable energy source such as solar or wind power. Read articles here about carbon offsets, RECs, green-e certified renewable energy sales, and renewable energy credits.
US Largest Carbon Credit Buyer in 2009
The U.S. was the largest buyer of voluntary carbon credits last year, according to a new report released by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New ...
RGGI Auction Price Falls, Again
RGGI has announced the results (PDF) of the second quarterly auction of carbon dioxide allowances in 2010. The auction, held Wednesday, June 9th, yielded ...
Tesla Sells Carbon Credits to Honda for $13.8m
Tesla Motors has sold $13.8 million in carbon credits to Honda Motor since 2008, despite not making a profit on its manufacturing business yet, according ...
MEGTEC Builds Methane Abatement System
MEGTEC Systems announced today that it will build the world’s largest methane abatement system to capture and eliminate ventilation air methane (VAM) from the Datong ...
Energy Efficiency Investment Remains Strong Despite Downturn
Investment in energy efficiency remained high last year despite the economic downturn, according to a survey conducted by Johnson Controls. Meanwhile, the Financial Times ...
Consol Energy Taps Methane For Carbon Credits
Consol Energy will become the second coal miner to develop a methane capture and abatement system in the U.S., according to a company ...
Virgin, Alaska Airlines, Continental Get Green Nod From Greenopia
Virgin, Alaska Airlines and Continental won the top tthree spots in Greenopia’s rankings of the most environmentally friendly airlines as the website updated ...
Google to Buy Carbon Offsets from Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project
Google will purchase carbon credits generated by a landfill gas-to-energy project in Berkeley County, S.C., through 2013 as part of its commitment to become ...
Airlines, Environmentalists Clash on Emissions
Tensions between environmentalists and airlines are coming to a head over increasing efforts to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aircraft. Meanwhile, recent ...
UN Carbon Credits Fall as Officials Plan to Increase Offset Projects
In the midst of sliding European Union (EU) carbon allowances and United Nation carbon credits, UN regulators are getting set to increase carbon offset projects, ...
China May Launch Carbon Market by 2014
China may launch a carbon trading market as soon as 2014, according to a Bloomberg report.
According to the report, the government may ask companies ...
Roundup – MA Names Green Nabes, MIT Cuts Power Use
Deval Patrick Names 35 Green Communities
Boston Globe
MIT to Cut Energy Use by 15 Percent in Three Years
MIT
Kawasaki Heavy: Revving ...
Europe Attempts to Revive Carbon Trading
European regulators and businesses are making an attempt to revive carbon trading through the use of a supplemental “green bond” system that would function alongside the current cap-and-trade scheme, according to a report in the ...
Federal Green IT Program Offsets 100% of CO2 Emissions
More than a dozen federal agencies, including the Energy, Justice, and Commerce departments, as well as the Navy, are participating in a "green" IT ...
Bacardi, Datapipe Adopt Renewable Energy
A rum producer and a hosted IT provider are taking different routes to adopting renewable energy - one quite visible, the other ... not so ...
2009 REC Prices Ranged from a Buck to $650
U.S. companies paid anywhere from a little more than a dollar on up to $650 for renewable energy credits (RECs) in 2009, according to the ...
Whole Foods Aims to Reduce Energy Use 25% by 2015
Supermarket chain Whole Foods has set a goal to reduce energy consumed per square foot 25 percent by 2015.
Additionally, the chain said it ...
PepsiCo Drops RECs in Favor of $30M in On-site Generation
PepsiCo, since 2007 one of the leading U.S. purchasers of renewable energy credits (RECs), is putting a virtual halt to that practice. Instead, the ...
Office Depot Promotes ‘Green’ NASCAR, Electronics Recycling
Two new Office Depot promotions are centered around themes of reducing emissions and recycling electronics.
A NASCAR tie-in is geared to launch ...
NYSE Goes Carbon Neutral Through Wind RECs
The New York Stock Exchange is purchasing renewable energy credits to offset the approximately 28 million kilowatt hours it uses annually, reports the Baltimore Sun.
The ...
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
