Who Gets the Power?

The power is sold or used locally.  For example, the Alex Little Soldier Wind Turbine project is selling the power to a local utility.  The Alaska Native Village we supported projects sell the power to their retail customers.  Our farm methane projects use some of the power on the farm, and sell the rest to the grid. 

What’s important is that the generator is required to treat the power, whether it sells it or uses it itself, as “generic” power, and to make no claims regarding its environmental attributes that would conflict with our customers’ rights to use the RECs to treat their own power as renewable or to offset their CO₂ footprint.  When the generator sells the power, we require it to include the same restrictions in its sale contracts, and we check to make sure the restrictions are there and that we can enforce them.