Ottawa: The EcoLogo Program publicly released its latest standard for Renewable Low-Impact Electricity Products November 17.
“EcoLogo has long served as the de facto standard for greener electricity generation in many Canadian jurisdictions and this newly revised standard will help the top environmental performers in the electricity sector to receive the recognition they deserve,” says Dr. Angela Griffiths, Executive Director of the EcoLogo Program.
Under the newly revised standard, the availability of certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and bundled electricity will make it easier for consumers and purchasers to support renewable low-impact electricity products, leading to the potential growth in this market over time, the organization says.
Bundled renewable low-impact electricity and RECs recognized in this standard can be derived from the following generation technologies: biogas-fuelled electricity, biomass-fuelled electricity, solar-powered electricity, wind-powered electricity and hydro-powered electricity. New additions to the revised EcoLogo Renewable Low-Impact Electricity Products standard are geothermal, tidal and wave-powered electricity.
For more information about the newly revised standard, visit http://www.ecologo.org, go to Our Standards > Search Certification Standards and filter by Category > Electricity Products.
See also “RECs will soon carry the Ecologo label,” IPPSO FACTO, June 2010, and “EcoLogo going strong as twentieth anniversary approaches,” IPPSO FACTO, April 2007.