| This Handbook is the
first comprehensive resource for energy regulators whose
decision-making intersects with
renewable energy markets. It also features useful information
for market participants, environmental regulators and certificate
buyers.
The Handbook covers the building blocks for the development
of a credible renewable certificate market. It provides:
- "Best Practices" from domestic and international
experience with TRCs to date, covering issues such as property
rights, net-metering, interaction with RPS and green pricing,
rate-setting, banking and retiring, and other related topics
- Guidelines for the development of certificate accounting
systems
- Guidance questions to help regulators with salient issues
that are sensitive to local conditions
- A list of "Basic Principles" in TRC marketing
and rule-making
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