Green Energy Commodities

Green Energy Commodities specialises in selling environmental investment products. Green Energy Commodities is a UK-based limited company, registered with Companies House under Company No. 08192880. The Green Energy Commodities website is www.tradegec.com . The website provides potential customers with comprehensive information regarding the range of products offered by Green Energy Commodities. The Green Energy Commodities website also provides general background information regarding the history of this particular niche.

Green Energy Commodities offers customers the option of being able to invest in Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). This is a particular type of traded environmental product that arose as a consequence of the Kyoto Agreement of 1997. Under that Agreement a large number of national governments agreed to put measures into place to restrict carbon emissions. Although the US Senate did not formally ratify the treaty, the majority of individual states adopted measures in line with the Agreement’s main points. The concept of ‘carbon credits’ has enabled companies such as Green Energy Commodities to trade in this niche. In situations where a particular organisation has not used up its carbon emissions quota for any given period, it is able to trade any excess. This is the area in which companies such as Green Energy Commodities operate. Linked to this is the requirement on energy producers to ensure that a specified proportion of electricity produced comes from renewable sources. Each Renewable Energy Certificate (of the type in which Green Energy Commodities invests) provides confirmation that one megawatt hour of electricity has been produced from renewable sources. RECs came into existence primarily as a means of enabling companies to prove that they are meeting their obligations under carbon emissions legislation.

What makes RECs attractive to companies such as Green Energy Commodities is the fact that RECs are transferrable. As Green Energy Commodities explains, the owner of an REC is able to state that it has bought electricity from renewable sources. This makes RECs popular with those companies seeking to demonstrate their ‘green’ credentials. Green Energy Commodities states on its website that major companies such as Google, Microsoft and McDonalds have previously invested in RECs. Green Energy Commodities also estimates that the long term