What is green electricity?
Renewables generate electricity, or green electricity. Renewables that will be the most familiar are wind and solar, but there are others – hydropower, geothermal and biomass. Grey electricity is produced using exhaustible fossil fuels, like gas and coal, which are harmful to the environment.
Whether you’re a buyer or a producer, switching to green electricity helps to encourage the generation of renewable energy. Green electricity gives businesses a more sustainable image and helps them to achieve their sustainability goals more readily. What’s more, businesses may also be able to take advantage of government subsidy schemes. Producers of green electricity can also sell the electricity that they generate to buyers, or trade the electricity on the market to give them a revenue model.
Scholt Energy offers a number of green electricity products, giving you options to match your consumption, production and/or sustainability goals.
Green certificates: for buyers
Another way for businesses to purchase green electricity is using certificates or ‘Guarantees of Origin’ (GOOs). A GOO is documentary evidence that proves where sustainably generated energy originated. Scholt Energy takes care of the purchase of GOOs and links them to customers using green certificates. You can choose 100 per cent Dutch wind energy, European renewable energy and more.
Discover different green certificates
Sustainable entrepreneurship
An ever increasing number of businesses are opting for green electricity. Doing so allows them to make their consumption more sustainable and at the same time offer a more sustainable product. This in turn helps them to meet the expectations of their suppliers, buyers and customers. Below you will see which businesses have concluded a CPPA or purchased green certificates through Scholt Energy.
Customers speak
“We have robust sustainable ambitions and view this first CPPA deal with Klimaatfonds Nederland and Scholt Energy as a long-term investment. The organisation hopes to sign multiple CPPAs in the near future, in order to increase the portion of sustainable electricity that it purchases and take joint steps to further the energy transition.”
- Van der Valk Hotels
“Sustainability is an important topic in the printing industry. By purchasing renewable energy through Scholt Energy, Lijnco is making its operations energy-neutral.”
- Lijnco
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