Ensuring Federal Government Agencies Have Access to Green-e® Certified Renewable Energy
Provide a Green-e® Energy certified product to ensure that your Federal Agency customers are meeting their obligations under the Biden administration’s EO 14057: Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability.
Are you selling renewable energy to federal agencies?
Signed in 2021, Executive Order 14057 established a policy that the Federal Government will lead America by example to help transition the nation to a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 by setting ambitious government-wide goals for a 65 percent reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 from 2008 levels and achieving net-zero emissions procurement. Under this Executive Order Federal agencies must consume renewable energy provided to them by their retail service provider, power purchase agreements, purchased unbundled RECs, on-site renewables, or through their default electricity service. But in order to qualify, agencies must receive supply from facilities that meet specific quality criteria, including the fact that any such facility was placed in service on or after October 1, 2021 and that the energy is consumed in the same grid region as it is generated in.
Make it easy to comply with Green-e® Energy certification
The Green-e® Energy certification program’s Federal Option is a solution that can currently certify generation used to meet the obligations of the EO 14057. In most cases, Green-e® Energy certification requirements are more stringent than the Executive Order requires. At the same time, the Green-e® Energy Annual Verification Audit Protocol for Federal Option products contains relevant procedures to ensure that EO 14057 requirements are being met in cases where they are stricter than Green-e® Energy requirements. This helps reduce risk not only to buyers purchasing to comply with EO 14057 but also mitigates contract disputes for sellers.
Add a Federal Option program
For current Green-e® Energy participants, a new Federal Option Program can be added with no annual base fee, as long as any non-Federal Option Green-e® program is operational. The only cost associated with the certified generation is a small volumetric fee for the megawatt hours that are certified.
Get started
All you need to do to get started is alert your Green-e® Energy contract representative that you’d like to offer a Federal Option and we’ll do the rest. Please contact Green-e® Energy Program Staff for more information: energy@green-e.org; 415-561-2100.