RECs have a big advantage, because they have access to cheap money and pay few taxes.

ECONOMIST: Cross-country co-operation

To receive RECs, Massachusetts facilities must also have 20-year lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions that are no greater than 50 percent the emissions from a natural gas facility.

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RECs, the two Scottish power companies, the Pool (a club of companies which runs the wholesale electricity market) and would-be new suppliers all have to be able to converse.

ECONOMIST: Electricity

The Army, which was not required to make any capital investment in the project, will keep title to the associated Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) for complying with federal renewable energy mandates.

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It was recommended the set up of regional and sub-regional multi-stakeholder EFA coordination committees, aligned with the continental and regional education inter-governmental structures of the Africa Union and Regional Economic Communities (RECs).

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) issued regulations recently limiting ratepayer-funded subsidies known as renewable energy certificates (RECs) to only those biomass power plants which adhere to scientific standards for climate and forest impacts.

FORBES: Massachusetts Addresses "Biomass Loophole" and Limits Subsidies

So Greenpeace laid out the stairway to a coal-free iCloud, stressing that Apple should not rely on Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs, purchased from clean energy producers far from its data farms to green up its operations.

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RECs, in particular, are a tempting target.

ECONOMIST: Cross-country co-operation