For over 20 years RECS (previously as RECS International) has had the great honour of being supported by a solid member base. While the tasks for the organization have changed over the years, adjusting to the continuously evolving European and global socio-political landscape, our mission has remained throughout to develop or maintain robust, transparent and reliable systems for energy attribute certificates.  

On 18 May 2022, the European Commission adopted a staff working document of guidance (scroll down the ‘commission adoption’ section) to Member States on good practices to speed up permit-granting ...

Although centrally regulated by the EU Renewable Energy Directive, GO markets in European countries can differ in terms of prices, volumes and regulations. The Dutch GO Day will highlight the most important developments within this national GO market and will discuss topics like the certification of gas, full consumption disclosure, the European standard on GOs, and time stamping.

The European Parliament and European Council are developing their positions on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED-3). In the European Parliament, the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) ...

The Open Markets Committee (OMC) grants members of the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) and RECS the opportunity to meet and discuss developments in, and interactions between, European Guarantee of Origin (GO) systems and markets.

As part of expanding its offer to RECS members, the secretariat will be holding members only webinars for each new paper it publishes. This initiative will be kicked off by presenting the organisation’s recent publications over two webinars in June.

RECS is pleased to welcome two new members: T-RECs and Falck Renewables.

The UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy proposed changes to the green imported electricity exemption under both CfD & FIT as well as ceasing recognition of EU ...

In February 2022, RE100 held town hall meetings with its members to discuss three proposed changes to the RE100 technical criteria for consideration in the next planned update. Revisions to the criteria happen every two years, in March. The next planned update will be published in March 2023.