A key takeaway is that $400 RECs in DC and $0.50 RECs in Texas are both RECs, but many people who buy them don't know the difference.
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Companies that say they source clean energy are often just buying RECs — and where those RECs come from matters.
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The multibillion-dollar businesses built around buying and selling RECs"Just like any other commodity market — oil, currencies, whatever — there are actively traded markets for RECs," said Scott Eidson, the vice president of environmental markets at 3Degrees, a firm that sells RECs and other services.
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Click on to find the best recs of the season.
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Or maybe my friends just don't trust my TV recs.
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And maybe you'll finally understand how Netflix recs work, too.
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A kind of certificate, RECs essentially track renewable energy generation.
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Redlight's City Jams EP drops very soon on Hot Haus Recs.
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But as you now know, not all RECs are created equal.
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I honestly need some new recs, so commenters, do the thing.
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Without RECs, that number falls to 60 percent, per the report.
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Like the other providers, AWS offsets its carbon emissions with RECs.
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I have open recs equivilant to 10 percent of the existing workforce.
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RECs are the only way to track the generation of clean energy.
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But RECs can be sold separately from the energy that generates them.
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Click through for the skin-care recs we go to sleep dreaming about.
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RECs were created to track and claim the renewable energy a customer generates.
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For more gear recs and guitar geek-outs follow Kemble Walters on Instagram.
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RECs that energy providers use to meet clean-energy targets fall into the compliance market, whereas RECs that are purchased voluntarily — such as by a business that wants to say it sources clean energy — are part of the voluntary market.
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Google then takes those RECs off the market, or "retires" them in utility parlance.
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Impacts become fuzzier if targets are met solely by purchasing renewable energy certificates (RECs).
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More often, though, companies simply buy RECs rather than generating their own green power.
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My fiancé and I are going to Mexico City in February, send food recs!
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Wind- and solar-power plants produce RECs for each unit of electricity they generate.
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Buyers of RECs then can claim ownership over a certain amount of renewable electricity.
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Voluntary RECs, on the other hand, are purchased voluntarily rather than to meet state standards.
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Meanwhile, the list is dominated by companies obtaining most of their green power from RECs.
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Push notifications and Magic Recs coexisted side-by-side for 2.5 years until very recently.
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Twitter could have turned it into something that people could even pull for more Recs.
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Though they are little-known, RECs form the backbone of the nation's renewable-energy industry.
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For instance, it imposes "new build" requirements, meaning RECs can't just go to existing projects.
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RECs are a way for energy companies to track the power that comes from renewable sources.
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After looking at all her makeup recs, I contemplate restarting my ipsy subscription.... 10:30 a.m.
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If you're intrigued but also a little stumped on how to use it, we've got recs.
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Thanks to this, and purchasing RECs from verified sources, the brewery uses over 116% green energy.
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Her recs are also a great indicator that you don't need to shun Instagram just yet.
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The catch is that only certain kinds of RECs can count toward those clean-energy targets.
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Those RECs come from 12 wind farms, four of which are in Texas, the company says.
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"If the customer is not getting the RECs, it is not an accurate statement," Heeter said.
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Arcadia Power's main green offer is 50% wind energy (via RECs) for free by signing up.
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Purchasing and retiring mandatory RECs can spur utilities to generate more green power to meet their mandates.
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Without those RECs, you can't technically call that electricity renewable — even if the source of it is.
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For more of Dr. Clay's expert tips and our skin-care recs, read on and get glowing.
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What to watch: Expect more MLB stadiums to follow suit in buying RECs to offset their electricity usage.
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His "Parks and Recs" comrade Ben Schwartz voices a new character named Banarnar, who's just a giant banana.
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Doubly ironic is the fact that Magic Recs was a bot that actually worked when some have flopped.
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RECs are an entirely separate commodity from the energy associated with them, and they are often sold separately.
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RECs are viewed with great suspicion by many clean energy advocates, but the bill puts restrictions on them.
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The new Apple TV app also provides personalized recommendations using machine learning and lets you swipe easily between recs.
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RECs cost Arcadia money, so a free matching program, on its own, is a net loss to the startup.
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New emission-free energy certificates are like RECs but for non-renewable sources that do not emit greenhouse gases.
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Wal-mart, Whole Foods and PepsiCo are shifting away from RECs to focus on directly installing wind and solar.
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Renewable-energy certificates (RECs) are traded like gold or silver and form the backbone of the clean-energy industry.
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Plus, there's so much wind power in the state that the RECs it generates can cost less than $0.50.
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Some chilled albariño (see our wine critic's excellent bottle recs) pairs perfectly with the salty spray of the bay.
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The company can then slice and dice the data by department, open recs, gender, salary, geography and so forth.
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We also recently signed an agreement to procure renewable energy certificates (RECs) from two solar energy generation companies in Singapore.
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Two studies by the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute showed that voluntary RECs fail to add green power to the grid.
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In 2018, Amazon announced it had achieved 50 percent renewable energy usage across the company when RECs are factored in.
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The biggest buyers of RECs are power companies looking to satisfy state-mandated clean-energy requirements, known as renewable portfolio standards.
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It does this by purchasing what are called renewable energy certificates (RECs) from wind farms around the country on your behalf.
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The company also purchases the corresponding commodities, known as Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), from green energy providers it sources power from.
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Think of RECs as a measurement of how green the energy you're purchasing is, like the opposite of a carbon tax.
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Thankfully, the pros offered up their tips and product recs to R29 — so we stop putting dirty brushes on our faces.
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Hopefully, you're prepared for a long-term, committed relationship, because you're bound to fall in love with one of these recs.
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The "renewable" aspect of it will likely be claimed by someone else, perhaps across the country, when they buy the RECs.
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Google, for example, still needs some energy from data centers running on fossil fuels, but it purchases RECs to offset it.
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Targeted got the recs from EC readers though, and it's certainly a story that deserves more than one point of view.
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In reality, only a fraction of each company's energy comes directly from solar or wind installations; the rest comes from RECs.
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North Korea is more rational than you think The looming debt ceiling fight, explained Indie bookstores always have the best book recs.
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For more back-to-school recs, check out our favorite laptops for students and our guide to giving your desk a makeover.
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I asked people I trusted for food recs and also did a lot of searching on TripAdvisor for quality places to eat.
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The company has been carbon neutral since 2100, and including its RECs, it has run on 2100 percent renewable energy since 2014.
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The big picture: Renewable energy certificates (RECs) — which track renewable energy from the point of generation — have been crucial in driving this shift.
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The idea is that firms seeking to offset their non-green energy production can purchase RECs from a company producing excess green power.
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Obviously it's full of feminist book recs from Watson, fitness tips from Lewis, and plenty of stuff we can't even begin to imagine.
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RECs are how we account for the production of green energy, as electrons are indistinguishable from each other once they enter the grid.
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Meanwhile, RECs are dirt cheap in parts of the country that have already blown past their RPS or don't have one at all.
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And it's no secret how invaluable a Brooklyn native's endorsement is: When a local gives you their recs, you take them to heart.
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Mandatory RECs are used by utilities to meet renewable portfolio standards in states that mandate the percent of electricity that must come from renewables.
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"But it has to be more than buying RECs," said Dale Sartor, a staff engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who studies technology efficiency.
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The price of RECs varies dramatically: In some markets, they cost as little as $0.50, while they're priced at $400 or more in others.
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That is why solar RECs, or SRECs, in the region are pricey, selling for upward of $400 each, according to the research firm BloombergNEF.
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SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive argues that his REC-less customers are still part of the climate solution by creating the RECs in the first place.
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To find certified supplements, go to these organizations websites for recs or look for their labels on any tubs you see in the supplement aisle.
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But consumers often have little clue how to tell RECs apart and can end up paying a premium for a product that adds little value.
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The RECs process raises concerns, including over perceived transparency and whether the purpose is to just track renewable energy or actually encourage more of it.
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Without RECs, Microsoft's data centers run on 60 percent renewable electricity and the company plans to boost this to 70 percent renewable energy by 2023.
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By selling the RECs instead of keeping them for yourself, you could just be helping the utility meet a goal it was already mandated to meet.
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This removes a quantity of renewable electricity from the market, forcing utilities to make more renewable power to generate more RECs rather than trading existing certificates.
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In a statement, the company — which offers other avenues to source clean energy — said it was "committed to only the highest quality standards" for its RECs.
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Ahead, 13 of your favorite celebs demonstrate how they're wearing gilded eyes and shiny lips right now — plus product recs to pull off the trend at home.
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We so often hear about the importance — and extravagance — of various skin-care routines, whether we're devouring celebrity profiles or swapping product recs in the group chat.
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At Pop Recs, a music shop and cafe near the bus depot, three people who voted to stay in the European Union were debating a second referendum.
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The RECs I purchased through Arcadia are coming from a wind farm in a different part of the country (probably Texas, which has the most wind power).
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The rise is a result of several factors, such as solar power installations at its facilities and the purchase of International Renewable Energy Certificates, or I-RECs.
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While he still thinks it's misleading to market solar leases as providing green energy if they don't include RECs, he ultimately decided to sign on the dotted line.
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Stohler outlined her top five destination picks around the world that are ideal for fleeting visits and why — including insider recs on places to stay, eat, and adventure.
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"We're the first to suggest that face recs algorithms should be tested at 'planet-scale,'" wrote the study's lead author, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, in an email to TechCrunch.
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That means a certain percentage of the energy that electricity providers, such as utilities, sell must come from renewable sources, and RECs are how they account for it.
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However, if Davidson is interested in learning more about what books DiCaprio recommends in 2019, the actor's foundation has a whole bunch of recs listed on its website.
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And while each horoscope is tailored to your sun sign, don't worry: You won't send Mercury into retrograde should you decide to cheat and try out another sign's recs.
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In Singapore, companies can buy and sell so-called renewable energy certificates (RECs) that represent a unit of green energy production from the likes of wind or solar power.
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Instead, the company hit this mark largely by buying renewable energy certificates (RECs), which ensure a certain quantity of wind and solar electricity is allocated to a given use.
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And if you don't possess the RECs, then you can't claim the energy is renewable, according to John Rogers, a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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RECs are intangible energy commodities that confirm one megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity is generated and delivered to the grid from a renewable energy resource, according to the EPA.
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RECs are how companies like Google and Microsoft can claim their data centers are powered 22014 percent by renewables while still being connected to grids that use fossil fuels.
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From the chemical exfoliant celebrating one year of keeping our skin clear to the universal balm that's been fending off chapped lips since day one, check out our recs ahead.
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RECs are a huge market driver for renewable power, and Google's purchases are part of a larger trend of companies lighting a fire under utilities to build cleaner energy sources.
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For its part, sub-Saharan Africa has long established several Regional Economic Communities (RECs) with an eye towards greater regional economic cooperation, coordination, and synergy – priorities of African Union leadership.
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This is notably smaller than similar tech giants like Apple and Google who do not use as many RECs to justify their carbon neutrality and boast 100 percent carbon neutrality.
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These seem like standard target areas, but WIRED points out one caveat that is usually overlooked in determining if a company is truly carbon-neutral is renewable energy credits (RECs).
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What's next: Stay tuned for a deeper dive on RECs (try to contain your excitement) and any updates as necessary with my experience with Arcadia Power and like-minded companies.
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As a way to account for that, Apple purchases what are known as Renewable Energy Certificates, or RECs, which are a tradable commodity that guarantee the cleanliness of an energy source.
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Just click through the slides ahead for six celebrities wearing burgundy eyeshadow looks in all the right ways; plus, the product recs for each, so you can re-create these at home.
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At a time when Twitter is looking for catchy things to capture more audience, it's ironic that Magic Recs bot would stop working just as bots were starting to become a thing.
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There are also a handful of startups that sell RECs directly to energy customers, including CleanChoice Energy and Arcadia, which is backed by some of the most prominent clean-energy venture capitalists.
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The shoe recs are super similar to what I already have, and I think I can find a better deal on older models of shoes online so I pass on making any purchases.
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One other REC oddity: Not all rooftop solar energy can be called renewable Most rooftop solar companies keep and sell the RECs produced by the panels they lease to customers, according to EnergySage.
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The FDA isn't obligated to do whatever one of these panels says, but the government body, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, generally tends to follow their recs.
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What to watch: There is already momentum to bring blockchain to climate policy, with pioneers testing out peer-to-peer systems for energy trading, marine fuels, renewable energy credits (RECs), and carbon credit tokenization.
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You had to follow Magic Recs to get it to work for you, which was probably a barrier to entry for most users and defeated the idea of pushing stuff to less active people.
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In an announcement on Monday, the business said that a crucial part of the increase had been down to the purchase of International Renewable Energy Certificates, or I-RECs, for production facilities in China.
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Despite goals of net zero carbon emissions in 2040 and the construction of wind and solar farms, the statement that Amazon achieved 50 percent renewable energy — RECs included — was debunked in a Greenpeace report.
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We've grown accustomed to using the internet as a vehicle for elevating your living space, and we'd like to arm you with helpful tools and recs for your own adventures through the digital decor world.
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To get around the physical limitations of tracking subatomic particles, and to incentivize clean energy investment, Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) are generated by companies that generate power with wind turbines, solar panels, and other green methods.
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Chen's recs were used to piece together the ideal LA day: pre-lunch basketball at Pan Pacific Park on the Westside, lunch at Hoy-Ka in East Hollywood, then a dash over to the Huntington Gardens.
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While Microsoft and Google retired its RECs so that its clean energy projects would add to the total clean energy count, Amazon found a way to profit off of slightly speeding up an emergent status quo.
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Oddly, if you lease solar panels for your roof at home, chances are you can't claim that your energy is renewable because the companies that lease them to you likely sell the RECs to other businesses.
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A look inside an opaque $6 billion industry that challenges the very idea of renewable energy It's tough to write a scintillating headline when the topic of the story is something called "renewable energy certificates," or RECs.
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Now, all the money generated by compliance credits will be put into a central, stable budget of more than $200 million a year, to be spent by the Illinois Power Agency on renewable energy credits, or RECs.
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And allow me to be the first to admit I have zero interest in planning a wedding — other than picking out the venue, the food and the music… any recs for a good Motown band based in NYC?!
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Seeing Chef & My Fridge pop up on Netflix means that it's now easier to share TV recs than ever, and I don't have to direct my friends to shady, hard-to-navigate sites to get them to watch.
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These certificates have become the primary way for tracking green power supply in the U.S. Even when companies generate their own renewable electricity, the EPA requires that they retain the RECs in order to make a green power claim.
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"Music can be a big part of expression on Instagram – between adding music to Stories, connecting with artists, sending song recs back-and-forth, there are lots of ways to connect with music on IG" an Instagram spokesperson tells me.
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Read more: Arcadia has raised $70 million on the promise it can take on 'a massive old monopoly industry' and slash your power billThe pitch is simple: These companies will help you or your company source clean energy with RECs.
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A Sunrun spokesperson said the company manages the sale of the RECs "so customers don't have to deal with the complexity of SREC transactions," and it passes the financial benefit on to them "in the form of lower monthly payments."
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Roose hit back against Ledwich in a lengthy thread: The only people who have the right data to study radicalization at scale work at YouTube, and they have made changes in 2019 they say have reduced "borderline content" recs by 70%.
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She insults the academic Pierce with a crack about Wikipedia; she trolls Roman's reading recs and bullies Tom in front of everyone; she's wrong-footed with Nan (who gives her a truly operatic glare) when she tries to compliment Pierce.
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But there is value in keeping tabs on the renewable ones, so energy wonks came up with renewable energy credits (RECs), a tradable financial instrument that corresponds to a certain amount of energy produced by a certain renewable source like solar or wind.
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"A lot of individuals buy green power because they want to know that the power they're buying wouldn't be there unless they bought it," says Jennifer Martin, executive director of the Center for Resource Solutions, a nonprofit firm that certifies RECs' authenticity.
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The one downside is that she's weirdly obsessed with these creepy dolls that she poses and makes up stories about their relationships, but nothing is perfect and I'll put up with it as long as she keeps it coming with the restaurant recs.
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Magic Recs first started to appear around June of 2013, and the push notifications — essentially alerts that are not tweets but appear in the notifications tab on your mobile, activated through your notifications settings — were first activated some months later, in September.
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It sounds like an esoteric distinction, but it matters: By selling the RECs instead of keeping them for yourself, you could just be helping the utility meet a goal it was already mandated to meet—thus helping excuse it from building more solar capacity itself.
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Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs, a strikingly effective bot account that used to send you DMs recommending viral accounts or Tweets to follow, run by an algorithm that measured how many others you knew were following an account or Tweet in quick succession.
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Because RECs have value—ranging from under a penny to a buck or two for each hour's worth of electricity your roof produces, depending on the state, companies like SolarCity can sell them and thus help justify giving you the solar panels for little to nothing.
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Whether he's sharing his interest in Lizzo and Lil Nas X with the release of his music playlists or telling readers they "can't go wrong" with Toni Morrison novels as part of his summer reading recs, the ex-commander in chief isn't surrendering his role as a big-time tastemaker.
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Whether he's sharing his preference for Lizzo and Lil Nas X with the release of his music playlists, or telling readers they "can't go wrong" with Toni Morrison novels as part of his summer reading recs, the ex-commander in chief isn't surrendering his role as a big-time tastemaker (The Hill).
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These RECs can be used by utilities to count toward state renewable energy requirements (many states have standards that require utilities to generate a certain percentage of their energy from renewable sources), but they can also be bought and sold on the open market by corporations, in order to meet voluntary clean energy commitments.
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What a company interested in boosting the amount of clean power brought online would do—as, for example, Microsoft did with its RECs after purchasing clean energy in the region—is buy the clean energy then retire the credits, so the credits from the project aren't used by a utility to meet a state renewable energy requirement.
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Reese Witherspoon has been giving us around-the-clock inspiration — from her charming book club picks to her massive collection of stylish-yet-comfortable sneakers to the pet accessories she put on her adorable French bulldog Pepper, we can always count on the multi-hyphenate actress to give us a daily dose of product recs we never knew we needed.
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Even more baffling than LELO's solution to the not-that-pressing problem of condoms breaking when stabbed with sharp objects was the fact that the company brought on Charlie Sheen as a product rep: because if there's one person we all want to take condom recs from, it's the man who brought "Winning!" and "Tiger blood" into the cultural conversation.
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Some of our top recs are "NBA Rooks," which follows first-year athletes as they transition to the league; "Detail," which features Kobe Bryant, Peyton Manning, and Daniel Cormier analyzing film and highlights of current athletes; and "Why We Fight," an in-depth docu-series hosted by UFC veteran Cat Zingano that tells the backstory on lesser-known UFC fighters.
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