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            "*": "Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
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                "title": "Renewable energy certificates",
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                        "*": "Invented by Enron in 1997<ref>[https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37388.pdf] \u201cEmerging Markets for\nRenewable Energy Certificates: Opportunities and Challenges\u201d, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2005</ref> to make their acquisition of the Zond wind energy company profitable, renewable energy certificates (RECs, called \u201cgreen tags\u201d by Enron and \u201crenewables obligation certificates\u201d [ROCs] in many countries) represent the \u201cenvironmental benefit\u201d of electricity sources deemed to be \u201cgreen\u201d. They are sold apart from and in addition to the actual energy.\n\nThe RECs allow their buyer to claim that their electricity comes from that specific source, even though all sources feed into the vast pool of the [[electrical grid]] and every user on that grid gets their electricity from the same mix of sources.\n\nRECs are obviously worthless, a blatant monetization of \u201c[[wikipedia:Virtue_signalling|virtue signaling]]\u201d (and of false virtue at that<ref>[[Carbon emissions]]</ref>).\n\n<references />\n\n==''See also:''==\n* [[Feed-in tariff]]\n* [[Renewable portfolio standard]]\n* [[Production tax credit]]"
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                        "*": "Many countries (and states in the USA) require utilities to buy a specified amount of their electricity from designated \u201crenewable\u201d sources, such as wind and solar but usually excluding existing hydro. This is called a \u201crenewable portfolio standard\u201d (RPS), \u201crenewable electricity standard\u201d, or \u201crenewables obligation\u201d.\n\nSuch a directive has little regard for cost, practicality, or [[Carbon emissions|science]] but is instead primarily an act of political [[wikipedia:Virtue_signalling|virtue signaling]].\n\nOr it is a cynical act of crony capitalism: Besides placing burdens on utilities and ratepayers, an RPS serves to create an obligatory market for energy sources that would otherwise find it difficult to compete with more reliable and cheaper sources. Combined with subsidies, e.g., [[production tax credit]], [[Feed-in tariff|feed-in tariffs]], and an extra market for \u201c[[green tags]]\u201d, an RPS helps to guarantee attractive returns and tax avoidance for the investors in these \u201cfavored\u201d technologies.\n\n==''See also:''==\n* [[Renewable energy certificates]]\n* [[Feed-in tariff]]\n* [[Production tax credit]]"
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