Renewable Energy Certificate (United States) - Qualifying Technologies

Qualifying Technologies

The following generation technologies qualify as producers of RECs:

  • Solar electric
  • Wind
  • Geothermal
  • Low Impact Hydropower (small-run-of-the-river facilities, not ones that require large dams and reservoirs, or affecting river flows adversely.)
  • Biomass, biofuels and landfill to gas
  • Fuel cells (only if powered by hydrogen produced by one of the above approved generators, not from fossil fuels).
  • In some states, combined heat and power systems

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