ENERGY ATTRIBUTE CERTIFICATES
Reduce Scope 2 emissions
Lower your Scope 2 footprint by matching your electricity use with high-quality EACs, like RECs and geographically equivalent instruments around the world.
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ENERGY ATTRIBUTE CERTIFICATES
Lower your Scope 2 footprint by matching your electricity use with high-quality EACs, like RECs and geographically equivalent instruments around the world.
Whether you have RE100 or SBTi targets, EACs are an accepted tool to help you reduce your market-based Scope 2 emissions and make renewable electricity claims.
We offer EACs globally, matched to the markets where you consume electricity. Every certificate comes from a qualifying facility commissioned or repowered within the last 15 years, with a vintage matched to your reporting year. Green-e certified RECs are also available for buyers who need third-party verification behind their claims.
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EACs are market-based instruments that represent one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity generated from renewable energy, tracked in a registry separately from the physical power. There are different types of EACs that go by different names around the world. Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) is the common name used in the US, while International Renewable Energy Certificates (I-RECs) are used in over 50 other countries, and Europe uses Guarantees of Origin (GOs).
Under the GHG Protocol, EACs can be used to reduce reported market-based Scope 2 emissions. When a company buys and retires an EAC, it gains the right to claim that clean generation as its own consumption.
Purchasing EACs allows your company to lower its market-based Scope 2 emissions. Because your money flows to renewable generators, EACs also provide direct financial support for clean energy while giving you a recognized, auditable basis for the claims you make to customers, investors, and reporting frameworks.
Every EAC we offer meets the GHG Protocol Scope 2 Quality Criteria, so it can be used to lower your market-based Scope 2 emissions. We offer EACs globally to match the markets where you consume electricity. Every certificate comes from a qualifying facility commissioned or repowered within the last 15 years, with a vintage matched to your reporting year. Green-e certified RECs are also available for buyers who need third-party verification behind their claims.