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NC-v4 EAc7:Green power and carbon offsets

Is a combination possible?

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Garrett Ferguson
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We have a project that purchases electricity from their local utility provider, which provides just over 33% green-e certified green power to their customers. They are on a wait list to purchase 100% green power, but the utility provider can't offer more through them. Since we're looking at purchasing RECs, could we only purchase green power for the other 67% of the electricity? I know that we'll still need to do carbon offsets for the natural gas in the project. 

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Marcus Sheffer
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Fri, 11/11/2022 - 21:12

I don't see why not. As long as you can adequately document the two sources it should be fine.

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