energy projects
Our unique "help build" carbon offsets give you a direct impact in helping finance the construction of specific new renewable energy projects that need additional upfront revenues to succeed. By purchasing a share of a project's long-term offsets, you can help us fix a market failure that is preventing the development of many high-quality projects, and make a real difference for your project.
Learn about our "help build" model.
We also offer conventional, vintage renewable energy credits (RECs) and vintage carbon offsets from operating new projects, enabling you to help build overall market demand for clean energy and other carbon mitigation projects.
We help build projects that help communities
in need
We help build projects that create sustainable economic benefits for Native Americans, Alaska Native Villages, family farmers and rural communities.
Learn more about the projects we help build
We're the choice of leading brands and organizations
Many of the world's best known environmentally and socially responsible businesses, organizations, bands, films and events have chosen NativeEnergy, because they want their purchases to have a direct impact in financing new projects.
Prominent Partner List
We're Transparent
On this web site you can learn all the details about how it works, what the differences are between conventional RECs and offsets and our forward stream "help build" RECs and offsets, what the risks and benefits of each are, how we estimate your CO2 reductions, how our projects we've already helped build are performing relative to our previous estimates, and all of the details and terms and conditions of your purchase and donation to Clean Air-Cool Planet. We also provide you lots of background information in our FAQs.
On our web site we offer vintage carbon offsets that are third party verified to the UNFCCC CDM Standard, and Green-e certified RECs for green power through our CoolWattssm program. We provide our business customers carbon offsets that are third party verified to the following certification standards: UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism, Gold Standard, VER+, the Voluntary Carbon Standard, and the Environmental Resources Trust protocols.
Our forward stream "help build" carbon offsets from several projects have been certified by the Climate Neutral Network. Unfortunately, the Climate Neutral Network has now ceased operations. We are in discussions with third party certification organizations regarding the continued certification of forward purchased and forward credited offsets. In the meantime, we remain intensely proud of and loyal to our "help build" model, and so we continue to use it in fidelity with the principles upon which it was certified by the Climate Neutral Network, and to promote it for the special benefits it provides.
Learn about the certification history and status of our "help build" carbon offsets.
We're verified
Following the end of our fiscal year, we will have our purchase and sales records undergo a review by an independent certified public accountant with the same level of rigor as is required for our CoolWattssm product, and we'll post the results on our web site, so you can be assured that we purchased exactly what we sold to our customers.