![]() Next, Reveal’s Najib Aminy takes us to Palm Beach County, Florida, to find out where some RECs are made: in a trash incinerator. Evans and Reveal’s Melissa Lewis determined that since 2010, more than half of what the government has claimed as renewable energy was just cheap RECs. But even after he spoke out and evidence piled up showing that RECs were ineffective, other companies kept buying them – and the federal government did, too. Schendler initially convinced his company to buy RECs to go green, then realized he made a mistake. Reveal’s Will Evans starts with Auden Schendler, the man in charge of sustainability at Aspen Skiing Co. So how exactly do RECs help the climate crisis? This week, Reveal investigates RECs and finds that the federal government uses them to pad its environmental stats. Anyone buying those certificates, or RECs, could claim that green power and also claim they were helping the environment.įor years, corporations have bought RECs as a low-commitment way to claim they’re “going green” – all while using the same old fossil fuel-powered electricity. The idea was that renewable energy producers could sell certificates that represented the “greenness” of the energy they made. Back then, building wind and solar farms was way more expensive than it is today. ![]() When they were invented in the ’90s, renewable energy certificates were meant to stimulate the green energy market. Please reload the page and try again.Īpple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | S titcher | Pandora | Amazon Music Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. ![]()
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