Renewable Energy Programs

Buy Your Green Tags Now!

Green Tag is a short name for renewable energy certificate. Green Tags are created when a renewable energy facility generates electricity. Each unique certificate represents all of the environmental attributes or benefits of a specific quantity of renewable generation, namely the benefits that everyone receives when conventional fuels, such as coal, nuclear, oil, or gas, are displaced. What you pay for when you buy renewable energy certificates is the benefit of displacing other non-renewable sources from the regional or national electric grid.

When a renewable energy facility operates, it creates electricity that is delivered into a vast network of transmission wires, often referred to as "the grid." The grid is segmented into regional power pools. To help facilitate the sale of renewable electricity nationally and regionally, a system was established that separates renewable electricity generation into two parts: the electricity delivered into the grid and environmental attributes or benefits of that generation. The environmental attributes are sold separately as renewable certificates both regionally and nationally. Green Tags help overcome the obstacle of delivering the benefits of renewable energy to customers who are sometimes far from generating plants. The purchaser of a certificate is the sole "owner" of the environmental attributes of energy added to the grid.

Green Tags can be sold independently or combined with conventional electricity to provide customers with all the benefits of renewable electricity service. Their purchase helps build demand for renewable electricity, potentially reduces global climate change, and reduces regional air pollution in one or more regions.

In August the Wyoming Public Service Commission approved Powder River Energy’s Green Tag Tariff.

Members of PRECorp can now purchase Green Tags by calling the Customer Service Department at 800-442-3630. A 100 kWh block of Green Tags can be purchased for only an additional 50 cents per month!

Green Tag Signup Form

What is Green Power?

NRECA Renewable Energy Brochure