RECS International invites you to read the second edition of the RECS Magazine.  This includes articles such as: ·   Cover story: There's no such thing as 'green electricity' ·   Interview with Ursula Stocker of Naturemade ·   RECS Market Meeting news ·   News items ·   Broker's column, Salvatore Lima

RECS International member, Demirören Axpo, announced that it has delivered the first renewable electricity, supplied from continental Europe and consumed in Turkey.

To conclude the transition from the PRO to the EECS Rules, the AIB Hub is being amended to reject transfers containing certificates which have been issued after a certain date and have missing mandatory fields.

With Powernext becoming an AIB member the easy, free-trade of Guarantees of Origin can take place between France and 19 other AIB-hub connected registries.

Eleven countries voted to approve the CEN/CENELEC Guarantee of Origin standard.

The Green Paper, “A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies” was in consultation until July 2nd, 2013.  

LEED has modified their Building Operations and Maintenance criteria with specific attention given to alternative compliance paths for European users.  The criteria now includes the ability to use EECS-GO Certificates for proof of renewable electricity consumption in Europe.

On June 21, the AIB has joined nine other European energy Associations in the adoption of an anti-fraud package created by the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN).

The recent legal opinion provided by The European Court of Justice Advocate-General Yves Bot has potential implications for the future of the Guarantee of Origin, something to which RECS International was interviewed for in the most recent June 24th Power In Europe by Platts,