Green online first claim
3 April 2012
An energy trader claims to have made the first online trade in renewable obligation certificates from a green electricity supplier.
Renewable Trading, which started up last May, has purchased two years’ electricity production from Cumbria-based wind-power supplier Windcluster. The certificates guarantee its credentials as being renewable.
The certified power will be offered to suppliers that, later this year, will be legally obliged to take 3 per cent of their supply from renewable sources...