Federal Renewable Electricity Standard

To ensure that a vibrant voluntary market for renewable energy continues under a federal RES, REMA has the following objectives to encourage competitive markets for RECs and to build on what states have already done to foster renewable energy markets:

Policy Objective 1: Expressly prohibit voluntary renewable purchases by end-use customers to be simultaneously claimed by another party to satisfy RES compliance.

Policy Objective 2: Clarify federal renewable energy certificate (FREC) ownership for contracts involving unbundled RECs created prior to enactment of the federal RES.

Additional Content

• REMA Comments on Federal RES in American Clean Energy Leadership Act (S. 1462) (September 18, 2009)
  
  
• REMA Comments on American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) (September 18, 2009)

• Letter to Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Bingaman and the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources on Federal RES (September 18, 2009)