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Hourly Clean Energy Utility Product Designs: Nine Product Model Examples

CRS’s Clean Energy Accounting Project (CEAP)’s Hourly Clean Energy Utility Product Designs: Nine Product Model Examples helps vertically integrated utilities in the United States design credible, customer-focused hourly clean electricity products. The guidance includes nine of the most practical Product Model options organized by complexity and risk to the utility, equipping utilities to offer a …

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Best Practices for Power Source & Emissions Disclosure

Clear power source disclosure helps customers understand what electricity they are buying and the emissions associated with it. CEAP’s new Best Practices for Power Source and Emissions Disclosure offers a practical U.S. framework for more accurate, transparent, and comparable electricity disclosures. The guidance recommends product-specific disclosure; accounting based on delivered attributes rather than utility-wide averages; …

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Developer Insights on Financial Modeling to Describe Renewable Energy Certificate Impacts

This report by Eric O’Shaughnessy, Ph.D. is the result of a series of interviews in 2023 of renewable energy market stakeholders and follow-up interviews in 2024 with four large renewable energy developers about the financial impact of renewable energy certificates (RECs) on project development. The interviews highlighted that common financial models underestimate how RECs influence …

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Indicators of Clean Electricity Procurement That Drives New Supply

Voluntary clean electricity procurement plays a critical role in accelerating the energy transition—but a lack of consensus on what kind of individual purchases directly drive or have an increased indirect impact on new clean energy and maintaining existing clean energy has led to market fragmentation and uncertainty for buyers and investors. This CEAP initiative produced …

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Market-Based Accounting for Clean Fuels

Fuel producers and their customers concerned with managing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from using fuels are pursuing ways to replace conventional fossil fuels with biologically derived and lower-emitting alternative fuels. To help spur investment in the production of these nascent fuels, these stakeholders are using markets for contractual instruments like certificates representing the environmental …

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Indicators of Clean Electricity Procurement That Drives New Supply

Market-Based Accounting for Clean Fuels

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