Marketplace for Voluntary Residential Solar RECs
We facilitate validation, certification, and registration, providing liquidity to homeowners, long-term returns to investors, and transaction services to climate activists.
For REC Buyers
Reasons to Buy Residential Solar RECs
Support Local Households
Buying RECs from residential solar benefits local households as opposed to large corporate or utility-scale projects. Power to the people!
Support Distributed Generation
Decentralizing grid energy generation improves grid resilience and reduces transmission loss.
Environmental Impact
Residential solar uses pre-existing structures, causing less local habitat disruption and less environmental damage.
Confidence in Every REC
The rigorous certification ensures that each REC you buy represents genuine, verifiable renewable energy generation. With blockchain technology tracking every step of the process, you can be confident in the authenticity and environmental impact of your REC purchase.Certified by Project RenewablesTM
Project Renewables certification means each solar system is rigorously verified, approved for operation, and guaranteed to meet standards for additionality and accountability.Blockchain Transparency
Every step of the certification process is tracked on a secure, tamper-proof blockchain, providing complete visibility and trustworthy data for every installation.Pooled Systems
Solar systems are strategically distributed across the United States, ensuring a stable energy supply while enhancing grid resilience and efficiency.
Looking to buy RECs?
For Rec Sellers
Why Sell Your RECs with Us?
Unlock the full potential of your solar system with Project Renewables.
We are the only player in the voluntary REC market
We handle all the administration
Simple deliverables
Commercial operation date- Environmental Attributes Agreement
- PTO documentation
- One line diagram
- Purchase power agreement
- Meter ID (photos of your meter)
Upfront cash (NPV), highest payout
Looking to sell your RECs?
Coming Soon!Invest with Us
How it works:
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We Buy Generators for Upfront Cash
We provide upfront cash to residential solar generators based on the present value of the future stream of generated RECs. - 2
We Aggregate and Group for Stability
This approach helps to levelize production and reduce risks, ensuring a more stable and reliable source of RECs. - 3
We Tokenize Ownership
Each token represents a share in the production of clean energy RECs, making ownership transparent, accessible, and easily transferable in a digital format. - 4
Decentralized Financial Protocol for Investors
This protocol ensures that investments are secure, transparent, and based on real-world RECs, while also providing liquidity and monthly returns for investors. - 5
Selling RECs and Sharing Profits
We sell the RECs on the open market. Coin holders are rewarded with payments from the proceeds of each REC sale.
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Frequently Asked Questions
RECs, or Renewable Energy Certificates, represent the certified "green." attributes associated with energy generated by solar PV systems or other renewable sources, separate from the physical electricity produced. 1 REC = 1MWh of green energy.
Consider a data center aiming to operate on green energy. Unless it is entirely powered by its own renewable supply (e.g., a dedicated solar farm with batteries), it must draw power from the grid. Since grid power combines all energy sources indistinguishably, the data center needs both the physical electricity and the corresponding RECs to claim its operations as "green." By separating green attributes from the power, a market was established to incentivize renewable energy development.
Project Renewables was created to address the gap in the REC marketplace for residential solar RECs.
- The "voluntary" aspect of Voluntary RECs means they are purchased by choice rather than to meet a legal requirement. Individuals and organizations buy them to demonstrate their commitment to clean energy and to support renewable energy development. By choosing to buy Voluntary RECs, customers go beyond regulatory obligations, helping to increase the demand for renewable energy in the market. In the residential solar market, the distinguishing feature that makes a REC "voluntary" or "compliance" is location. At Project Renewables, we serve the voluntary market.
- At Project Renewables, our aim is to bring simplicity to the historically difficult process of REC verification, registration, monthly monitoring and monthly sale of RECs. Our pricing algorithms dynamically set the upfront purchase price based on the present value of live market rates minus our fees for administrative services.
- The price for RECs vary day by day and our live pricing algorithms adjust accordingly. To save on transaction costs and to make it worth the time and effort, we align investors of long duration annuities, buyers of voluntary RECs, and sellers/suppliers who want upfront liquidity. We offer upfront, present value pricing, net of our fees. Pricing is system production dependent, but usually is around $100-150 per system. We then process the RECs for the life of the system and broker the sale monthly.
- Our contract and REC registry work assigns ownership of the data needed for REC administration and REC ownership for the life of the system. The new owner will need to maintain our access to the system's production data but no other work is needed on their part or yours.
- Technically, you are selling the right to your systems future green energy attributes. We then take those rights and attributes, do all the administrative work to convert the green attributes into RECs, then sell those RECs to corporate offtakers who retire them to meet green initiatives. Administrative work involves registration and certification to ensure your system is not double counting, and the RECs, once retired, cannot be transacted again.
- Yes, you can sell your RECs through various registry services. However, for voluntary RECs, the annual fees associated with most registries often exceed the value of the RECs generated by a residential system. Additionally, there is no liquid marketplace for voluntary RECs, so selling them usually requires working with a brokerage, like Project Renewables, to pool and market your RECs. Large corporations, which are the primary buyers, often purchase in high volumes—tens of thousands of RECs monthly—making it challenging to sell on an individual or residential level. If you're in an SREC compliance market, however, Project Renewables may not be the right fit.
- Yes. All your personal data is secured by Project Renewables. We do the work of registration and certification of your system, as well as ongoing data management, so that we can create anonymous RECs for sale to corporate offtakers. Turning your system's green attributes into tradable RECs is not a trivial task. The administrative work is rigorous to ensure systems and the RECs that are produced by the system are not double counted.
- Enphase, Solar Edge, and Tesla inverter systems. We hope to add more in the future.
- Feel free to contact us anytime. We can be reached at support@projectrenewables.io.