Online Resources

What are these guys talking about? There is a great deal of on-line resources on renewable electricity, climate change, certificate trading, etc. available. Here are some of the better ones.

The Accociation of Issuing Bodies
www.aib-net.org

The homepage of the Association of issuing bodies. A lot of information on how the EECS certificate system actually works and what is required from the producers.

RECS International
www.recs.org

The homepage of the voluntary renewable energy certificate system. A lot of material from open seminars, links to members' homepages, etc.

GREXCMO
www.grexcmo.com

The EECS-Guarantee of Origin certificate registry used by Finland and Sweden.

RECSCMO
www.recscmo.org

The RECS and EECS-Guarantee of Origin certificate registry used by Denmark, Norway, Austria and Slovenia.

GreenPrices - News Portal
www.greenprices.com

News related to Green electricity from various Euorpean countries.

Point Carbon - News Portal
www.pointcarbon.com

A membership based news service dealing with emission trading. Free newsletter and a good glossary of terms and abbreviations.

Cesar - The CCD for Swedish Electricity Certificates
https://elcertifikat.svk.se

The Swedish national green certificate registry. Public reports include e.g. average certificate prices and trading volumes (in swedish).

Trecking
www.treckin.com

A network of mostly non-profit organizations in the area of tradable renewable certificates.

GreenStream Network Ltd.
www.greenstream.net

Europe's leading green commodity broker and consultancy.

UNFCCC
www.unfccc.int

The UNFCC homepage. Everything you ever wanted to know about Kyoto accords.

The Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity
www.ucte.org

Here you will find most European grid system operators. See also www.nordel.org for nordic ones, www.centrel.org for the Chech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia and www.sudel.org for southeast European ones.

Agores
www.agores.org

An information rich website on renewable energy by European Commission Directorate-General Energy and Transport.

CAN Europe
www.climnet.org

The homepage of CAN Europe organization. A lot of news and links to other resources.

The European Environment Agency
www.eea.eu.int

A lot of news, articles and reports.

The International Energy Association
www.iea.org

Reports and articles. Particularly good for energy statistics.