EC-017 Renewable Energy Certificates for Contract Manufacturing

When small companies engaged in contract manufacturing are unable to leverage that contract to generate energy on the site of manufacture, and when it is not feasible to engage in a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), those companies may purchase Green-e Energy Certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) in order to meet the energy generation requirement of I07-1 Site Net Positive Calculations.

Companies eligible for this exception must meet all of the following criteria:

• not own the final production facility
• not be eligible to contract under a PPA
• control less than 75% of the facility’s production output by cost
• not occupy any other energy intensive facility at which they could engage in a PPA or install on-site renewables
  

RECs purchased to meet this exception must meet all of the following criteria:

• Be Green-e Energy Certified (within the U.S.) or comply with an ILFI-approved national or international standard, such as I-REC (outside the U.S.)
• Be purchased within the 21-month window of eligible generation dates established by Green-E Energy (within the 12 months of the sale calendar year, the six months before the sale calendar year began, or three months after the sale calendar year has ended
• Correspond to energy produced as locally as possible (at minimum within the same regional grid).