2023 Green-e Verification Report (2022 Data) Released
CRS, through its Green-e® Energy certification program, certified more than 114 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2022 through 158 companies, the highest number of certified retail MWh to date. Much of this was driven by Green-e® Direct procurement through power purchase agreements or VPPAs, which increased by 26% from 2021. CRS currently certifies over 2.7% of the total U.S. electricity mix. More than half of the installed wind capacity in the U.S. is participating in Green-e® Energy certified transactions, and 2022 saw over 12.8 million MWh come from solar generation.
Around half of the energy supplying certified sales and overall generating capacity came from facilities less than five years old. In 2022, there were 1.3 million retail purchasers of Green-e® certified renewable energy, including almost 314,000 businesses and more than a million residential customers.
- Sales of Green-e® Climate certified carbon offsets reached nearly 394,000 carbon offsets in 2022.
- Green-e® Marketplace licenses the Green-e® logo to participants for use with their renewable energy claims. The total number of companies participating in Green-e® Marketplace in 2022 was 32, with more than 800 products certified by the end of the year.