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How smart / green are we all 3-Dec-2008 At 9:07:00 PM Atomic_Tomatoes

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On 3/12/2008 evanbb wrote:
>On 3/12/2008 Atomic_Tomatoes wrote:
>>If more people "Buy" 100% green power where does it actually come?
>
>It comes from lots of seperate generators, who sell Origin their RECs,
>and then Origin retire them on your behalf. They are VERY HEAVILY regulated
>by ORER (Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator), so rest assured that
>they are doing the right thing. Some of those RECs even come from Sydney
>Water, as we just sold a butt load.

Retire them? RECs are created then sold then they are retired?

Sydney Water generates their own power to use at some treatment plants where almost all of the power is used onsite does this mean you are eligible for RECs because you used 'greenpower' to power your own site rather than getting it from the grid.

Surely at some stage there must be a saturation point, greenpower bought vs available greenpower. And not just creating/buying/selling RECs.

Just been reading some documents on ORER and there are coal fired powerstations on the list that are accredited and eligible for RECs......