Redefining RECs--Part 1: Untangling attributes and offsets

By M. Gillenwater. 2008

76 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Social Sciences & Humanities

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1. Rémi Tachet des Combes

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1. Noah A. Smith
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Citations in the corpus

• Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances (2022, background): “Major technology companies have also been increasingly committed to reducing their emissions, largely via the purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), which involves directly buying quantities of energy produced by renewable sources, translating into carbon reductions under the assumption that t”
• The entrepreneur-environment nexus: uncertainty, innovation and allocation (2010, unknown): “By 2005, there were 3890 MW h of RECs sold, representing an average annual growth rate of 144% (Gillenwater, 2008) and RECs are being purchased by many Fortune 500 corporations including Dell, PepsiCo, FedEx and Staples, subsidizing the development of renewable energy sources.”