From our REC Market Meeting newsletter:

The Florence School of Regulation, a centre of excellence working to improve the quality of European regulation and policy, has published the report “Upgrading Guarantees of Origin to Promote the Achievement of the EU Renewable Energy Target at Least Cost”.

Some end-users, particularly those with flexible demand and access to storage, are seeking to develop ways to show that they consumed renewable electricity at the same time as such electricity was being generated. RECS International provides its view in a new policy paper.

RECS International publishes a document which introduces different ways of buying renewable electricity.

The RECS International EECS GO Trade Agreement For Single or Multiple Deliveries is an update of the standard trade contract it replaces.

RECS International is pleased to welcome a new member from France: QuiEstVert.

The French Energy Ombudsman has proposed a new law on the comparison of different energy offers by consumers, with the objective of bringing more transparency to electricity offers containing a share of renewable energy.

The UK’s energy regulator, OFGEM, has made the following statement about GOs and Brexit:

With the new European Commission’s introduction of the European Green Deal, and the increase in the ambition of the 2030 and 2050 CO2 targets for the EU, a review of the underlying legislation is underway to examine whether it needs to be strengthened.