Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is electricity or heat generated from renewable sources, including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas and low impact hydro. Many companies are both buying and generating green energy as part of overall emissions reduction programmes. Governments at all levels have introduced a range of policies to promote the uptake of renewable technologies including: Renewables Portfolio Standards (RPS), which require utilities to generate a percentage of electricity from renewable fuel sources; and feed-in tariffs, which specify a guaranteed price for renewable electricity from private generators.
