Learn the Issues

This page shows all of the pages at www.epa.gov that are tagged with Learn the Issues.

  • Upper Animas Mining District: Draft Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment

    Draft Baseline Ecological Risk Assessment for the Upper Animas Mining District in San Juan County, Colorado; April 2015.

  • Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs)

    This page outlines the major differences between Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and Project Offsets and what types of claims each instrument allows the organization to make in regards to environmental emissions claims.

  • Energy Attribute Tracking Systems

    Renewable energy generation ownership can be accounted through tracking systems. Tracking systems are highly automated, contain specific information about each MWh, and are accessible over the internet to market participants.

  • Market Analysis

    The following timeline provides an overview of different milestones that contributed to the emergence of the U.S. voluntary green power market.

  • Green Power Community Usage Requirement

    Green Power Communities are a subset of the Green Power Partnership; municipalities or tribal governments where government, businesses, and residents collectively use enough green power to meet GPP requirements. Learn about GPC Usage Requirements.

  • Enabling Solar Across the Supply Chain: REI’s Initiative to Expand Access and Drive Local Impact

    Webinar announcement on US City & Corporate Clean Energy Procurement and Its Role in Achieving the Paris Agreement’s Goals

  • Delivered Electricity

    This page illustrates how standard default delivered grid mix is different that voluntary use.

  • Market Instruments

    This page outlines the major differences between Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and Project Offsets and what types of claims each instrument allows the organization to make in regards to environmental emissions claims.

  • Solar Power Use Claims

    The U.S. EPA's Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program designed to reduce the environmental impact of electricity generation by promoting renewable energy. EPA evaluates partnership metrics annually to determine progress toward programmatic goals.

  • Green Power Purchasing Steps

    This page provides a list of the major steps involved in buying green power

  • Guide to Purchasing Green Power

    The Guide to Purchasing Green Power provides current and potential buyers of green power with information about green power purchasing.

  • Build & Self Generate

    These pages outline the common project development pathway from a project's conception to its completion for most on-site renewable energy projects. .

  • Purchase Green Power

    These web pages provide information and issues to consider when purchasing green power.

  • Learn about the Green Power Market

    This page lays out how the us Grid operates, how US green power market is similar and different to opther country's green power markets

  • Green Power Procurement Considerations

    EPA lays out 14 issues to consider when identifying which green power supply option(s) best suit your organization.

  • Consumer Leadership

    This page details how to think about leadership and impact beyond buying green power and to think about other behaviors that one can take that engender a renewable energy future.

  • Certification and Verification

    This page provides resources in understanding the value and business sense for purchasing credible products from credible suppliers.

  • Voluntary Supply Benefits

    The Local Government Solar Project Portal's Solar Project Development Pathway and Resources page details the major steps along the project development pathway and each step includes resources and tools to assist you with that step.

  • Market Drivers Interactions

    This page describes the impact each generation source contribute to the market. We highlight the importance on voluntary action as a significant change agent in the market.

  • Energy Market Drivers

    This page describes how different sources of generation contribute to transforming the voluntary green power market. It describes how voluntary and non-voluntary sources of generation create market change.

Subscribe to the RSS feed for this search