Boulder company holds certification programs green
In dozens of shops and restaurants around Boulder, customers are signs of proclaiming “This is Business Wind Power” on the logo for cleanliness and local businesses green.
Any idea of a strike perhaps counterintuitive that some customers - after all, where are the windmills? Of course, not on the roof, in the courtyard and the city is not limited. It is possible, windmills are not even in Colorado.
Clean and Green is one of many brokers to USA sells renewable energy credits or regional economic communities, whose clients have no direct access to wind energy to buy the environmental benefits of renewable energy produced elsewhere. But at the end of the year, the Boulder-based company dropped their certification recognized nationally, with customers know they actually receive what they buy.
Buy REC financially assist the promotion of renewable energies, so that the start-wind and solar energy more easily compete with traditional coal and gas-fired.
To ensure that customers their money is, indeed, a new renewable energy development and that regional economic communities are not sold twice, many companies have tried to validate third major certifier , Green-e.
“One of the most important points of the Green-e is transparency for the consumer,” said Jeff Swenerton, communications director for certification. “We make sure that consumers can discover where their energy. It must be true and verify.”
Clean and Green has no problem with the certification program, said Executive Director Gerry Dameron but could not justify the costs.
“We asked, Green-e and said:” Look, we appreciate what you do, and we would be very happy with the Green-e certified in the future, but we can not afford all costs ” he said. “We can not afford to spend $ 6,000 per year. Our society has never been a victory, and I’ve never drawn a salary, not a dimethanonaphthalerne. ”
But for some of cleanliness and Green’s customers, certification is important, as certified companies must be legally label their products organic.
“I think - and not know a lot about the industry - that the Green-e certification is a strong brand, and it is important to be recognized,” said Blake Jones, President of Namaste Solar Electric, Clean and Green to compensate all its thousand vehicles and electricity from solar energy. “I think, ‘Hey wait a minute, this is something fundamental, such as food bio-label.”
Jones also said Namaste to struggle with the additional fees for a product certified by a third party. The company strives to take all measures necessary fields, so that the new building in north Boulder may be LEED certified, stamps nationally recognised that the reliability of a building “green”.
“We could probably $ 25000 which cost us the certification and greater solar system, but we thought it was important that money and pay the label, as this brand has the substance and are not hollow, “said Jones, said he is now buying other regional economic communities for Namaste.
Clean and Green’s Dameron, said his product has not changed and that the only difference lies in the fact that money and save time it does.
“There is a very costly and expensive process, they need,” he said. “There is one way the industry is the killing of small suppliers. It is always a business game. “
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