Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
by Meredith. Angwin · 18 Oct 2020 · 376pp · 101,759 words
resistance. out-of-market compensation: Payments received by generators that do not go through the market bidding process. These can be payments for Reliability Agreements, Renewable Energy Credits, or other payments not directly related to buying and selling energy, capacity, or ancillary services. out-of-market revenue: See out-of-market compensation. peak
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in the production of electricity. Usually used in terms of nuclear generators. Defined at the state level, and usually parallel in structure and use to Renewable Energy Credits. ENDNOTES 1 Michael Lewis, The Big Short (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011). 2 Meredith and George Angwin, Voices for Vermont Yankee (Carnot Communications, 2013). 3
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Policy,” New England Power Pool (website), undated, http://nepool.com/IMAPP.php. 164 “The renewable energy credits market: where to buy RECs,” energysage (website), updated June 7, 2019, https://www.energysage.com/other-clean-options/renewable-energy-credits-recs/where-to-buy-renewable-energy-credits-recs/. 165 “SREC Markets, Pennsylvania” SRECTrade (website of Superior Clean Energy Management), undated, https
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words
market where neighbors can buy and sell the local environmental value of their energy. “So, instead of paying an energy services company that’s buying renewable energy credits, you get to pay the people who are actually generating the electricity that is serving your house, that is local and green, and that actually
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin · 9 Sep 2019 · 327pp · 84,627 words
that a mandated percentage of the electricity sold by their utilities come from renewable energy sources.20 The states are backing up their RPS with renewable energy credits to encourage both wind and solar installations. Even though the United States government has dropped out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, nineteen states
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
by Mariana Mazzucato · 1 Jan 2011 · 382pp · 92,138 words
the history of two renewable energy technologies: wind turbines and solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. 1 US states, for example, often have the ability to ‘trade’ renewable energy credits (RECs), or securitized environmental benefits. The RECs permit states to meet their renewable targets through the purchase of RECs rather than by actual energy infrastructure
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; national approaches to 119–22; ‘No More Solyndras Act’ 130–31n12; patient capital 138–40; policies impacting 113–15, 119; pushing green development 136–7; renewable energy credits (RECs) 115n1; smart grid technology in 115, 118; sustainability 117, 119, 123; UK’s approach to 124–6; US approach to 126–35; venture capital
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54 R&D/GDP 52 R&D Magazine 63 redistributional policies 31 Reenen, John van 46 Reinert, Erik 9n3, 38n5, 73 Reinhart, Carmen 17–18 renewable energy credits (RECs) 115n1 Renewable Portfolio Standards 114 ‘repatriation tax holiday’ 175 ‘representative’ agent 60 research 60, 78, 84, 136; see also science rewards, socialization of 156
Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist
by Ray C. Anderson · 28 Mar 2011 · 412pp · 113,782 words
directly to windpower generating stations in North Dakota or New Zealand, but we can buy renewable energy credits (REC) from utilities that are. Whether we generate it ourselves or pay someone else to, the earth wins. What are renewable energy credits? I’ll talk about RECs in the chapter on greening your power, but generally speaking
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eliminating waste, improving operating efficiency, and substituting renewable forms of energy for fossil fuels. The remaining 60 percent has come from verifiable offsets, not counting renewable energy credits. As I said earlier, if we also took credit for the RECs we purchase, Interface would be essentially climate neutral. Furthermore: • We’ve cut our
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Street, City of Industry, California, where renewable energy supplies 100 percent of the plant’s electricity requirements from an on-site solar photovoltaic array and renewable energy credits (RECs), which help make wind, solar, and biomass viable alternatives; • InterfaceFLOR Commercial, LaGrange, Georgia (two locations), with 100 percent of the electricity used in manufacturing
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coming from Green-e–certified renewable energy credits, biomass, and on-site solar photovoltaics; • InterfaceFLOR Commercial, West Point, Georgia, gets 100 percent of the electricity for its manufacturing processes from wind, biomass, and
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sustainability promise regulatory compliance reindeer, population crash of religion failure of institutions to solve environmental problems and science, conflict renewable energy goal of 100 percent renewable energy credits (REC) Re:Source Americas resources assumption that they are unlimited efficient use of peaking and decline of running out of respect, vs. autocratic management Riordan
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Alan Weisman · 21 Apr 2025 · 599pp · 149,014 words
installing them on surrounding buildings. They were now even getting off-reservation clients. Winona started 8th Fire Solar, a community development nonprofit, to apply for renewable energy credits that must increase, she believed, if there’s a chance for a clean future. At James Bay, she had wed a Cree chief; together they
The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better
by Annie Leonard · 22 Feb 2011 · 538pp · 138,544 words
, promising to burn up all that stinky garbage and turn it into energy, even claiming that garbage is renewable energy and these monstrosities should get renewable energy credits! Since we have too much garbage and not enough energy, that sure sounds appealing. But here’s the deal: first off, the little bit of
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and invest in waste prevention, reuse, and recycling programs that conserve resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and create jobs. Prohibit all scams aiming to give renewable energy credits or carbon offset credits to waste incinerators and landfill gas burning! To get involved, contact the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives at www.no-burn
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century
by Alex Prud'Homme · 6 Jun 2011 · 692pp · 167,950 words
“blue,” or water-smart, technology, Poseidon will offset its footprint by building or remediating 66 acres of wetlands, planting trees, using efficient pumps, and purchasing renewable energy credits. The company intends its Carlsbad desalinator to be the first major infrastructure project in California to be completely carbon-neutral. MacLaggan had been pushing the
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
by Cal Newport · 17 Sep 2012 · 197pp · 60,477 words
” of how the international carbon market works. As part of this expertise, he learned that the United States had an obscure exchange, known as the renewable energy credits market. “Almost no one understood these things; it was a really fractured market with huge information asymmetry,” he recalls. Being one of the few people