1. 2022 Report - Retail Energy’s Greenwashing. Millions have enrolled in retail “green energy” plans hoping to help our ailing climate. But if you dig deeper, consumers are not paying for clean energy when they sign up. Instead, they’re getting the same local utility grid electricity as their neighbors who didn’t enroll with an energy supplier. They also don’t know that the average $320 “green” premium each of the 1.5 million families paid in 2020 went mostly toward energy supplier bottom lines, and not toward repairing our climate.

There are two things that allow this bait-and-switch to happen: a little-known market instrument called a Renewable Energy Certificate, or REC; and the Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guide, the agency’s de facto rule book in which a mischaracterization of RECs provides legal cover for renewable marketing claims that are not only confusing, but also incorrect. Read report here —->>> report file