Renewable Energy

Guidance: Liability Reference Guide for Siting Renewable Energy on Contaminated Property

Reference document provides answers to renewable energy developers' common questions with liability and potentially contaminated property

Fact Sheet: RE-Powering America's Land - Siting Renewable Energy on Potentially Contaminated Properties: Liability Considerations

Fact sheet on guidance document addressing tenants as bona fide prospective purchasers under Superfund

Community Support at Superfund Sites

SRP engages with communities to strengthen partnerships, enhance remedy protectiveness, promote long-term stewardship, reduce stigma and create opportunities for reduced cleanup costs.

Greening Tribal Casinos

Tribally owned or operated gaming facilities have many opportunities to implement green building and operations. Environmental improvements can save money and have lasting environmental and social impacts for the Tribe and for facility visitors.

Webinar - States Taking Action to Align Utility Policies with Environment and Energy Goals

This August 2022 webinar featured three state regulatory experts on how states are increasingly adjusting and adopting programs to incorporate a broader set of environment and energy goals.

Tennessee Valley Authority Clean Air Act Settlement

A settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations at 11 of its coal-fired plants in Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

State, Local, and Tribal Webinar Series

Explore webinars and EPA resources tailored for state, local, and tribal governments to plan energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate, clean energy, and electrification policies and programs.

Webinar - Learn about the CO-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Health Impacts Screening and Mapping Tool

This State and Local Climate and Energy Program webinar provides an overview of the CO-Benefits Risk Assessment Screening and Mapping Tool (COBRA). COBRA allows you to quantify the health benefits of air, climate, and energy policies and programs.

Emerging Issues

This page provides resources to understand the dynamic green power market. EPA’s Green Power Partnership program can offer some insight and analysis to help understand some of the policy and implementation issues associated with these new trends.

24/7 Hourly Matching of Electricity

This page provides an overview of the concept of 24/7 hourly matching and answers some common questions about this new approach.

AVERT Webinars

This January 2023 webinar introduced AVERT 4.0, which allows users to model the "tailpipe to smokestack" energy and emissions impacts of electric vehicles. Results are presented at the county, state, and regional level, and can be incorporated into COBRA.

U.S. Renewable Electricity Market

The US green energy market is broken up into two main groups: the mandatory markets including state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and voluntary markets, also referred to as green power markets. This page delineates this two markets.

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. .

Green Power Procurement Considerations

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

Certification and Verification

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

Site Considerations

This page describes the importance of assessing a potential site for a renewable electricity project including the site’s technical, economic, policy, and other variables.

Credible Claims

This page provides resources to in making credible environmental claims and substantiate them through REC ownership and retirement.

Frequently Asked Questions

EPA receives questions on all aspects of the green power market. EPA will continue to build out this repository of commonly asked questions and responses to those inquires.

Resources

Summary of resources found on this web site

Evaluation

This page provides resources to help understand the proposal evaluation process.