Certification of Suppliers
How does the Clean Energy Choice® program certification work and how do consumers benefit?
Any renewable electricity supplier doing business in Massachusetts can apply to the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC) for certification of its offerings as tax deductible under the Clean Energy Choice program. To be eligible for certification, suppliers must:
Provide voluntary offerings with a content of at least 25% new renewable energy certificates (RECs) (i.e. the RECs must represent the environmental attributes of power generated from solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave, tidal, landfill gas, and "low emission" bioenergy that qualify under the Massachusetts Renewable Portfolio Standard).
Meet the Clean Energy Choice program's high consumer protection standards for information disclosure, accounting, reporting, and pricing. Clean Energy Choice regularly audits suppliers in order to provide assurance that "you get what you pay for".
How Consumers Are Protected
In addition to benefiting from our screening of electricity suppliers, if you select a tax-deductible Clean Energy Choice program, you'll be assured that your contribution supports the goals of this program.
Specifically, MTC will provide the following additional protections:
- Your contributions will be placed into a special account and won't be released until the electricity supplier delivers the renewable energy certificates that you are purchasing.
- MTC ensures that your energy supplier delivers the correct number and type of certificates in a timely manner.
- If the electricity supplier does not deliver the promised certificates, we will use the money in the special account to ensure that the proper number of certificates gets purchased.
- We screen for accuracy the information that your energy supplier provides you about the Clean Energy Choice program.
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative receives no financial benefit from any of the transactions or from consumers' voluntary payments. The entire clean power premium you pay goes to the renewable electricity supplier you select. In addition, we are paying for the cost of administering the Clean Energy Choice program, including the cost of recordkeeping, as part of our mission to administer the Renewable Energy Trust fund. This fund was created in 1997 by the Massachusetts legislature as an essential component of a restructured electric utility industry and to promote renewable energy development.
Certified Suppliers
Mass Energy Consumers Alliance
1-800-287-3950
www.massenergy.comCape Light Compact
1-800-381-9192
www.capelightcompact.orgCommunity Energy Inc
1-866-WIND-123
www.newwindenergy.comSterling Planet
1-877-457-2306
www.sterlingplanet.com