Renewable energy products

Western offers two renewable products to help Federal agencies meet their goals:

• Renewable energy certificates, the simplest approach
• Renewable energy delivered to your site

Renewable energy certificates

RECs are the environmental attributes of power generated from renewable electric plants. No energy is physically delivered to your site; only the environmental attributes of renewable generation are purchased. For sites where renewable power delivery is restricted because of physical or institutional barriers, this product may be your agency�s best option.

Product benefits:

• No transmission or ancillary services are required
• No impact to your existing power supplier

Renewable energy delivered to you

If you are a Western customer, we may be able to buy and deliver renewable energy to your facility. Costs include renewable power generation, transmission (if needed), related ancillary services, distribution (if needed) and program administration. An agency receiving power from another utility will need to obtain the cooperation of that utility before arrangements can be made to deliver renewable energy from Western.

Product benefits:

• Manage potential price volatility of conventional power generation
• Western customers may save transmission cost
• Clean energy delivered to your facility