Green options, priced side by side
We price each option against your load and take no commission.
Green power is sold five ways: a tariff, a solar subscription, a certificate, panels, a contract. Each supports a different claim. We price them on your load and take nothing from any seller.
The claim needs a certificate
Each seller prices its own product against doing nothing, so the offers never meet on one page. Then a report says “powered by renewable energy” for a year with no certificates retired in the company’s name. EPA says a REC is issued when one megawatt-hour of renewable electricity is generated and delivered to the grid; a claim needs those certificates, retired, behind it.
What a fair comparison gives you
Options on one page
Each option priced on your sites’ load, with contract length, exit terms and claim side by side.
Claims with certificates
Report and website wording matched to certificates retired in your name for the same year.
No seller’s commission
Our fee is fixed and published; no utility, developer or broker pays us for your choice.
Roofs screened first
Which sites merit an installer’s quote for on-site solar, and which do not.
Three ways to weigh options
Green Options Study
Every option your utilities and the market offer, priced on your load, with the claim each one supports.
Clean Claims Check
Every renewable statement in a report or on your website checked against certificates retired in your name.
Solar site screen
Roof, meter and load data sorted into sites worth an installer’s quote and sites to skip.
The options we compare
Utility green tariff
Your utility’s renewable program: the premium over standard service, term, exit rules and who retires the RECs.
Community solar subscription
A share of an offsite solar garden: bill credits, term, transfer rules and who keeps the RECs.
Unbundled RECs
Certificates bought apart from power: vintage, source, tracking registry and retirement in your name.
On-site solar
Roof, meter and load screening; design and sizing stay with licensed installers and engineers.
Offsite power contracts
For large loads only: a long-term deal with a wind or solar project, its price risk and certificates.
Claim wording
Draft language for reports and websites that says only what the retired certificates support.
Example: a nine-building suburban office owner
An owner of nine office buildings near the Denver Tech Center has tenants asking for renewable power. The Green Options Study puts a utility green tariff, community solar and unbundled RECs on one page, each with term, exit rules and claim. The Clean Claims Check finds last year’s RECs were bought but never retired in the owner’s name.
Indicative price
Indicative, from$2,500
For a Clean Claims Check of one reporting year; a Green Options Study is from $6,500. Every proposal is fixed-fee and itemized.
Green power questions, answered
Do you take commissions from green power sellers?
No. We take no commission, referral fee or rebate from any utility, developer, installer or REC broker. Our fee is fixed and published, so the option we rank first earns us nothing more than the one we rank last. If a seller offers us a fee, we decline it.
What can we claim with a utility green tariff?
It depends on who retires the certificates. Some utility programs retire RECs on the customer’s behalf; others keep them or sell them on. We read the current program terms and the certificate trail, then draft the claim that matches, which can range from a renewable use claim to no claim at all.
Is community solar the same as using solar power?
Not on its own. A subscription earns bill credits for a share of a solar garden’s output, and the RECs may stay with the garden or the utility. If they are not retired for you, the subscription earns credits but does not support a claim that your sites use solar power.
What does a renewable claim need behind it?
Certificates retired in your name, for the same period, covering the use you claim. EPA says a REC is issued for each megawatt-hour of renewable electricity generated and delivered to the grid, so a claim for 2,000 MWh needs 2,000 retired RECs. We check serial numbers, vintage and retirement records; your counsel has the last word on advertising.
Will you recommend on-site solar?
Only as a screen. We sort sites by roof, meter and load so you know which are worth an installer’s quote and which are not. System design, structural review and interconnection belong to licensed installers and engineers, and we take nothing from any of them.
When does an offsite PPA make sense?
Usually only for large, steady loads and an organization ready for a long contract. A power purchase agreement with a wind or solar project can run for many years and carries price risk your finance team must own. We run the load test and list the questions to ask; contract terms belong with your counsel.
Bring us the offers you have
Tell us about your sites and we will say plainly whether green utility optimization is the right place to start.