Reduce & Offset

To earn the Carbon Zero certification, members of our team will conduct an energy audit of your home or business and offer customized strategies to neutralize your emissions. This certification process uses a two-step approach: conservation and renewable energy sources.

Conservation

The easiest way to go about eliminating your carbon emissions is to strive toward not producing them in the first place. By reducing energy consumption in ways ranging from switching to incandescent lighting to using more energy efficient appliances, we can minimize carbon emissions.

Purchasing Renewable Energy Credits

We endorse the use of alternative energy sources. We require homes or businesses that are not able to produce their own renewable energy to purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to offset their carbon emissions. For each kilowatt hour of electricity a home or business uses, they must purchase one REC. Click here to learn more about our standards.

Our Standards

For each kilowatt hour of electricity consumed by the company, they must purchase one REC. Companies are required to send us a copy of their electricity bills to confirm their energy consumption. We must also obtain a copy of their receipt from the REC supplier to make sure that they are purchasing the same amount that they produce.

Our standards for Renewable Energy Credit(REC) suppliers are very simple. For every kilowatt hour (kwh) of energy produced using winding generation you can sell one REC. In order to ensure that the amount of RECs that they sell matches the amount of RECs sold, we require a third party audit by an accredited auditing company.