Podcasts about renewable energy certificates

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol – the global gold standard for measuring corporate emissions – is under review, and the proposed changes could dramatically reshape how clean energy is bought, sold, and reported. New draft rules are expected by the end of the year.What changes could we see? And how will they impact the energy transition? To find out, Sylvia Leyva Martinez, principal analyst at Wood Mackenzie covering solar markets, speaks with Lee Taylor, CEO of Resurety – a leading provider of data and analytics for clean energy buyers. Lee has spent over a decade helping companies understand not just how to procure renewables, but how to do so with real carbon impact.Together, they explore what's changing in Scope 2 emissions accounting, why location and timing of energy use now matter more than ever, and how voluntary clean power markets might evolve. They break down complex concepts like emissionality, 24/7 procurement, and consequential accounting – and what these mean for corporate net-zero strategies, PPA structures, and the future of Renewable Energy Certificates.If your business buys clean electricity or reports against Scope 2, this is essential listening.Plus, Taylor shares his advice for buyers and developers navigating the shifting landscape, and explains why the next six months will be key in shaping rules that will define voluntary climate leadership in the coming years.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this Convo of Flanigan's Eco-Logic, Ted speaks with Jack Groh, Director of Environmental Programs for the National Football League (NFL). He is also the Senior Vice President of Strategy for Legacy Sustainability, an independent consultancy that he and his wife, Susan Groh manage to develop and implement climate mitigation and adaptation strategies around major sporting events.Jack and Susan have been minimizing the environmental impacts of major sports events for 30 years, including the NFL's major special events. They also designed the sustainability plan for the NCAA College Football championship series. They are widely recognized for the unique and impactful community projects they develop and have consulted on sustainable transportation development, municipal waste diversion, building sustainability, and renewable energy.Ted and Jack discuss his varied background, growing up in Massachusetts, attending UMass Amherst, then going on to teach straight out of college before going back to school for journalism, spending some years TV reporting, before diving into consulting in communications and PR for companies around environmental issues. Since then, Jack and Susan Groh, now based in Warwick, Rhode Island, have been at the forefront of making the NFL and other organizations more environmentally conscious. In 1993, they developed the first environmental initiatives ever implemented at any professional sports league in the United States at Super Bowl XXVIII in Atlanta, Georgia. Their journey began with simple recycling projects during the Super Bowl and evolved into making the game the greenest professional championship in the world. Their efforts extend beyond visible actions, including recycling, food recovery and material repurposing, to making a substantial difference in the environmental and community impact of large events. Through their independent consulting efforts at Legacy Sustainability, they aim to leave each community better than they found it and inspire others to do the same. Some of the green legacy programs they leave behind in every community include planting trees, creating pollinator gardens, habitat restoration, equipment donations and school supply programs, recycling and composting, taking excess food and drink off to local food banks, and using renewable energy and helping organizations get renewable energy certificates. Jack highlights the Miami Coral Reef Project, Super Kids Super Sharing event, and the NFL Green Super Bowl LVIII Program launch. 

As the world prepares for the new reality climate change is bringing, countries are reacting differently to the nuances of global warming. In the United States, Joe Biden has supported a supercomputer in Colorado that is modeling geoengineering and weather manipulation with a focus on solar engineering. Joe Biden has also met with King Charles in the UK to discuss green energy solutions. Denmark is taking on sustainable energy projects by creating energy islands that utilize offshore windfarms. And Oslo, Norway is focusing on clean energy technology and seeks to bring the city close to zero emission. Oh, and also in the US, Florida is gaming Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) by burning thousands of tons of trash and polluting neighborhoods and our planet, and exacerbating the climate crisis. Inhospitable to Humans (05:03), Mass Relocation (13:44), Joe Biden and King Charles (21:05), Geoengineering and Weather Manipulation (23:07), Florida's Renewable Energy Certificates (28:01), The Problem with RECs (36:57), Florida Sabotages Itself (39:33), Denmark's Sustainable Energy Projects (42:34), Norway's Clean Energy Technology (50:58), A Future Ecological Paradise (55:56), Ecological Paradise Lost (01:06:21)

If you want to understand the transition to clean energy, you need to understand Renewable Energy Certificates. We talk to MCAN's Clean Energy Director to find out more about what a REC is, and why they matter. Check our showpage at massclimateactiondotorg/blog for the hot links.

Did you know that you can earn Renewable Energy Certificates for your solar power, regardless of how you use it? Energy Audits Unlimited verifies and reports your energy production so that you're rewarded for the power you produce!Learn more at https://www.solarecsnh.com/ or call 603-836-4402. Energy Audits Unlimited, LLC 85 Yvette St. , Manchester, NH 03102, United States Website https://www.solarecsnh.com/ Email prc.pressagency@gmail.com

John and Simar are joined by Brianna for a hugely insightful and inspiring conversation about her work at Reneum, which will soon launch a green marketplace that will use the power of #web3 and #blockchain to fund #renewable energy. She shares the background story, future prospects and also the bigger picture of Renewable Energy Certificates and what's needed from all of us for the successful transition to green energy, and so much more... Mentioned in the show: Reneum https://reneum.com 92 Rio Summit https://www.un.org/en/conferences/environment/rio1992 Nori https://nori.com/ Hormesis Therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis Jasmine energy. https://www.jasmine.energy/ Helios https://helios.eco/ 00:00 Intro 03:36 Brianna's Journey 06:40 Transition from Business to ReFi Founder 09:48 Energy Transition and Climate Change 12:46 Claiming Renewable Energy Credit Process 16:50 Monitoring Tools 18:08 Future & Forward 21:05 Explained 23:53 Credit Lifecycle 28:15 Primary vs Secondary Market 31:00 Where's Reneum at and future roadmap 31:58 Incoming Beta Market place 41:05 Inner journey and staying well 44:10 Giving People their Agency Back 46:30 Projection to 2030 50:20 Fitting into the Big Picture 54:15 CTA for renewable Energy -------------------------------------------- Connect with Brianna and check out Reneum https://reneum.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/reneum/?originalSubdomain=sg https://www.linkedin.com/in/briannawelsh https://twitter.com/briannaleewelsh -------------------------------------------- Join the conversation on Twitter, follow: https://twitter.com/ReFiDAOist https://twitter.com/climateXcrypto https://twitter.com/simarsmangat Thanks to our friends at Feed Ignite for the podcast and micro-content production: https://feedignite.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refipodcast/message

Planet Earth could be 2.7 degrees warmer by the end of the century according to some estimates. This is leagues above the globally agreed Paris target of well below 2 degrees Celsius or preferably 1.5. Many big emitters are saying we can reach this target through something called renewable energy certificates, but recent research has found these certificates have low integrity across the board. Dr Sophie Calabretto talks to Cosmos Magazine journalist Ellen Phiddian how renewable energy certificates work and why in some cases they aren't reducing emissions at all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on inside science Marnie Chesterton is looking at how companies measure and account for their use of renewable energy, how politics is impacting science funding in the UK and the technology behind the Queen's holographic stand in at jubilee celebrations. Dr Anders Bjorn from Concordia university in Montreal talks us through ‘Renewable Energy Certificates' explaining how they can sometimes be disconnected from real-life reductions in emissions. As he explains in a paper in Nature Climate Change this week, this is a problem, with businesses buying renewable energy certificates that may, even with the best of intentions, mean that corporate estimates of how much they have transferred to renewable energy could be out by as much as two-thirds. For example, in Poland, where much of the grid is powered by fossil fuels, a company can buy RECs from energy producers in Norway, where so much of the grid is de-carbonised and users feel no need to purchase such a certificate. As negotiations on the New Greenhouse Gas Protocol get underway, and delegates in Bonn discuss COP 26 progress, yet more food for thought. In the UK, some long term collaborations and research structures are under threat as the ratification of UK membership of Horizon Europe continues to be delayed. This has led to some researchers running out of funds, some having to relinquish membership, and others moving to different institutions in Member Countries. Professor Nicky Clayton at the university of Cambridge has for many years run a “Corvid Palace” where she keeps very clever birds and examines their thinking. It is threatened with closure, and she is searching for funding to keep the research going, even setting up an open letter from academics around the world in support of this globally renowned facility. Carsten Welsh, a physicist at Liverpool University has also been impacted, facing a difficult decision about whether to give up leadership of his newly funded project or leave the country to pursue it. EU Horizon is one of the most ambitious and well-funded research and international collaboration schemes in science and with every EU nation signed up and countries like Canada and Japan keen to join too, it's no wonder the UK wants to take part. Martin Smith, head of policy lab at the Wellcome Trust explains what's getting in our way and what might happen next for British scientists who rely on Horizon to fund their research. And finally, celebrations last weekend for the celebration of Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee were seemingly led by a holographic queen riding in the Golden State Coach at the head of the pageant in London. At least, that was how it was reported. But was it really? BBC Inside Science managed to track down the leader of the team that made it – whatever it was – happen, and in a generous world exclusive, Willie Williams, head of Treatment Studio, kindly spills the magic beans on quite how you make a Royal Hologram. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton Assistant Producer: Emily Bird Producer: Alex Mansfield

In this episode of Open Energy Access, I talk with Ricky Buch (Tech lead) about why project developers should start integrating into the D-REC platform today. The D-REC, or Distributed Renewable Energy Certificate, was created to solve a problem that will have a direct benefit for Energy Access project developers and for corporates who want the biggest return on their investment in renewable energy in terms of climate impact.In this episode, we'll discuss:- How you can generate new revenue streams with D-RECs- Steps of integrating into the D-REC platform- Why the D-REC platform is Open Source- What makes the D-REC stand out as the most promising way to monetize environmental attributes in the DRE spaceThis episode was originally recorded as a web series and is posted on Youtube. If you also like to watch your podcasts, then subscribe to the EnAccess YouTube channel.Links:enaccess.org/drecsd-recs.energyD-RECs on GitHubEnergy Web Foundation Origin

Saint John Energy is selling Renewable Energy Certificates to local companies who can then claim them to "offset" their carbon emissions. But have they, actually? Host Julia Wright speaks with Saint John Energy CEO Ryan Mitchell about the new program.

CELEBRATING EARTH DAY 2022 * Sustainability is an increasingly important topic of conversation and we'll dive into how the rise of new technologies like blockchain can help.What about blockchain technology makes it so appealing for addressing challenges related to climate action? Hear all about this from Computer Scientist Iván Salvador Razo Zapata, lecturer and researcher at The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). His main interests are in smart grids and blockchain and he works with a group of both undergraduate and grad students like Emiliano Gutiérrez at ITAM. They are busy working on the design and development of a proof-of-concept to manage renewable energy certificates for clean distributed energy resources. The proof-of-concept will be deployed using tools from different organizations such as the Energy Web Foundation, Ripple's partner on decarbonized blockchains.

US states are ramping up their decarbonization goals in legislation, and corporations are committing to powering their operations with renewables. Enter Renewable Energy Certificates. What role do RECs play in the energy transition, and do they bring more clarity or challenges to the race to decarbonize? Global power manager Amy Gasca leads the discussion with power pricing analyst Nicole Baquerizo and senior manager of North American power analytics Morris Greenberg. This Commodities Focus podcast was produced by Jennifer Pedrick in Houston.

For this vignette of a recent episode of The 5G Factor, part of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer assess T-Mobile's fulfillment of its mission to source 100% of its total electricity usage with renewable energy (RE100) by the end of 2021. T-Mobile attained this milestone by coordinating a renewable energy strategy that encompassed eight virtual power agreements, 19 retail agreements, one Green Direct program, and unbundled Renewable Energy Certificates that support projects nationwide.

In this episode, Alden Hathaway of Sterling Energy Assets joins Tim and John to discuss biomass generation and Renewable Energy Certificates. They talk about managed forests and how forests impact CO2 in a positive way. John McFarland of Working Buildings LLC returns to the show to talk about wood in building codes. UGA Sustainability Director Kevin Kirsche joins the panel in the final segment to talk about sustainability at UGA.

An increasing number of corporates are looking to add renewable energy sources to their energy mix as part of sustainability efforts. But, what do you do if you can’t fit solar panels on your office roof? Energy Market Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore Exchange recently launched Renewable Energy Certificates to offer a solution to this. Prime Time's Rachel Kelly spoke to Tan Liang Ching, Senior Vice President of Business Development at the Energy Market Company to find out more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's episode is about The Green Neighbor Challenge, a web-tool and social media campaign to help anyone in the U.S. find and sign up for a green energy program. But it's also a whole lot more, and to explain the impact green pricing can have on our carbon footprint, Andrew Butts joined me to discuss the endeavor. We also discuss why these programs are better and separate the distinctions between Renewable Energy Certificates vs. Carbon Offsets. The Green Neighbor Challenge is a fiscally sponsored project of The Power Shift Network, which mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.Want to help them out? They need researchers, interns, marketing pros, grant writers, and brainiacs like you! Say hi at greenneighborchallenge@gmail.com - - - - -To support ReVolt please go to Patreon.com/revoltcast, send it to a friend, and/or rate it on Apple Podcasts.Follow Jonah on instagram (IG: Jonah__Sargent)The email for this show is revoltcast@gmail.com and the phone number to leave a message is: (914) 575-2782. Ask me questions about electricity, energy, or the intersections of those in daily or global life. :) Thanks!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ReVoltCast)Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ReVoltCast)

Well if you joined us for the last episode, episode 8, you will know that Event Horizon 2019 has already took place back in the middle of June. The theme of this year’s conference was #MakeYourMove. So in this the penultimate episode of the current series, we’re continuing to focus a companies who have already made a move. So for Episode 9, join me, Kevin O'Donovan, where I chat with May Liew, Head of Sustainability and Innovation at SP Group. SP Group is Singapore Power and all members of the group.

Event Horizon 2019 has just taken place. The theme of this year’s conference was #MakeYourMove. If we’re going to have a hope of dealing with issues like #ClimateChange, then we have to accelerate the pace of the Energy Transition. One key takeaway from this year’s event is that blockchain enabled solutions that help accelerate the Energy Transition are viable today and are being commercially deployed. So for the final few episodes in this series, we’re going to hear from a number of Energy Companies who have already Made a Move. Join me, Kevin O'Donovan for Episode 8, Making a Move, where I chat with Etienne Gehain, Digital Innovation Officer at Engie.

This episode is a graduate-level course on tracking renewable energy from generation to the end user, and the complexities of how policies, processes and markets all interact. My guest is Ben Gerber, the Executive Director of M-RETS, the Midwest Renewable Energy Tracking System based in Minneapolis. And this episode is a first for this podcast as I invite a guest co-host to join me—Tanuj Deora, Vice President of Market Development at Simple Energy. Tanuj is well known in clean energy circles – among his many previous roles he’s served as the Director of the Colorado Energy Office and more recently as EVP at SEPA, the Smart Electric Power Alliance, a role in which he’s been a guest on this podcast before. Ben, Tanuj and I start our conversation with the basics – what is MRETS and what does it do, and how do Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, work? We look at how the REC market landscape has been changing for both buyers and sellers, and we get into the debate that’s been happening within the REC community about the value of RECs and if they’ve outlived their usefulness. Tanuj and Ben square off about questions of additionality and look at the extent to which REC policies provide a necessary market incentive to build new renewable generation or whether they can serve as a disincentive in some scenarios. From there we look at the applicability of tracking systems to other sectors such as energy efficiency and energy storage. Then we look more broadly at the implications of RECs for decarbonization, and specifically at how advances in the technology and different market and policy approaches can support meaningful climate action. And we close our conversation with a look at renewable natural gas. We recorded this episode in back in February when Ben was in DC to speak at NARUC’s annual Winter Policy Conference. Though the conversation is a couple months old now, it has aged well aside from Tanuj’s gloating about the Patriots winning the Super Bowl. Show references include: Orange Button Budweiser super bowl ad EPA Webinar: Renewable Natural Gas from Landfill Gas and Sustainability at L’Oréal Recorded February 10, 2019. Published April 29, 2019. Sign up for email news and updates from More Power To You.  Sponsor message: Is the climate crisis stressing you out?  You have a choice in what you do about it. Option 1: Scream into a pillow, or option 2: Drive sustainable corporate behavior through your investments. If you’re like most of us, you probably don’t know what your investment funds are supporting, and there’s a good chance they invest in fossil fuels. Change Finance is a woman-owned and operated Public Benefit Corporation that builds investment funds to change the world. The investments are fossil fuel free, and align with your values without sacrificing returns. Go to change-finance.net/mpty to learn more and start investing today.  Change Finance is a registered investment advisor. This is not an offer to buy or sell any product.

Cryptocurrency and blockchain news for October 30, 2018. Singapore Power launches Renewable Energy Certificates market on blockchain. SC Johnson and Plastic Bank clean oceans with blockchain help. Alrosa joins DeBeers tracking diamonds on blockchain.

On our latest episode of Grounded, Alan Johnston, Senior Engineer for the City of Gresham Wastewater Treatment Plant, is with us to talk about the plant’s operations (everybody poops!), and how they’ve implemented energy projects onsite that end up producing more electricity than the plant can even use. Gresham has also become the first certified facility for Renewable Energy Certificates for thermal energy. ODOE REC expert Rebecca Smith joins the episode later to talk about what that means. Visit https://energyinfo.oregon.gov for photos and helpful links. Learn more about our work at https://www.oregon.gov/energy. Music: “If” by Broke for Free. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Layers/If

Don Bain and Michael Gillenwater discuss the relationship between green power and carbon accounting and try to reduce some confusion about offsets and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) or Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGOs). This is timely considering: - The questions Don encounters from colleagues. - Michael’s recent blog post which asks (and answers) Is your “green power” really just “green washing?” - A recent open letter published by GHG accounting leaders on the perils of contractual emissions factors. - Draft guidance from the GHG Protocol for Scope 2 Reporting (public comment period).

This is a massive government scam. It involves governments effectively stealing your property by making it useless and uninhabitable. At least some of it is part of the scheme to enrich trade union superannuation funds. It all relies on the questionable theory that man is the principal cause of global warming. Or as they now say climate change. This scam involves putting wind farms across the country They’re planning 10,000 of these monstrosities. The Australian’s environment editor Graham Lloyd has written of the tremendous damage being caused by a wind farm to one small community. (“Where eagles dare not fly” The Weekend Australian 21 April 2012) This is Waterloo, north of Adelaide. He interviewed a number of victims whose lives had been ruined by the vast, swooshing wind towers looking over their homes. The people of found sleep almost impossible; they couldn't concentrate; they had night sweats, headaches, palpitations, heart trouble. Their chickens were laying eggs without yolks; their ewes were giving birth to deformed lambs; their once-active dogs spent their days staring blankly at the wall. The damage, it seems, is caused not so much by the noise you can hear but by what you can't hear: the infrasonic waves that attack the balance mechanism in the ear and against which not even home insulation can defend you. Its effects can be felt more than 10km away. Now takes a lot of courage for an environmental journalist to dare to go against the theory about global warming. You can hear an interview with Grahame Lloyd at http://www.2gb.com/index2.php?option=com_newsmanager&task=view&id=12985 Inspired by Lloyd's article, the British journalist James Delingpole went out to see the community himself. He says Waterloo felt like a ghost town: shuttered houses and a dust-blown aura of sinister unease, as in a horror movie when something dreadful has happened to a previously ordinary, happy settlement and at first you're not sure what. Then you look up on to the horizon and see them, turning slowly in the breeze . . . Even more shocking than this, though, were his discoveries about the finance arrangements and behaviour of the wind farm companies. He says it is one the biggest and most outrageous public affairs scandal of the 21st century. One in which the Gillard government is implicated .and that far exceeds in seriousness and scope of the Slipper or Thomson sideshows. You see, the wind turbines produce very little power. The wind doesn’t blow all the time. So a 3MW wind turbine generates at most only $150,000 worth of electricity a year. Through REC’s (Renewable Energy Certificates) it attracts guaranteed subsidies of $500,000 a year. If the unions were merely exploiting government environmental legislation to milk the taxpayer it would be bad enough. But what makes the wind farm scam so scandalous are the public health issues. James Delingpole asks why we are not more aware of these. The answer is in cover-ups on an epic scale. The wind farm industry. A government created cash cow. For some. Based on the questionable theory of manmade CO2 induced global warming. A scam paid by you in your taxes and your increased electricity bills. It’s about time the people were empowered to control their politicians.