Sustainable Energy Products
Helping you reduce where it counts most.
For many businesses today, energy consumption accounts of the bulk of their emissions.
Electricity use and natural gas consumption together can often add up to over 90% of an organization’s carbon footprint. Likewise, energy production and fossil fuels continue to be a leading source of our country’s total GHG inventory.
At the same time, energy is usually a major budgetary component for many businesses. That’s why Planet Energy Green has made it our priority to source and offer affordable customized green energy products directly to our customers. As an OEB licensed, EcoLogoTM certified energy retailer, Planet Energy Green is please to be able to offer these sustainable energy options. And because we believe that sustainability should be affordable for everyone, you’ll find our prices surprisingly reasonable:
- 100% Clean, Green Renewable Electricity
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Carbon Neutral Natural Gas
- Carbon Offsets
When it comes to making environmental claims, Planet Energy Green knows how important it is to provide our customer with the highest quality products, certified by leading organizations, and meeting rigorous environmental standards. All our environmental products are supported by transparent third party auditing and reporting to ensure our customers can stand behind their claims of Corporate Social Responsibility.
Planet Energy is licensed by the Ontario Energy Board to sell both electricity and natural gas.
Planet Energy is EcoLogo Certified retailer of low-impact electricity.
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Renewable Energy
100% Clean, Green Renewable Electricity
CCD-003 Electricity - Renewable Low-Impact
When it comes to electricity, traditional sources of generat ion create
harmful air emissions that contribute significantly to global warming.
Currently, every MWh of electricity generated within Ontario creates about
180kg of carbon dioxide emissions. That means using as little as 10,000
KWh a month has the same environmental impact as driving around 4 cars!
Although the Ontario government has committed to reducing these emissions
through the phasing out of coal fired generation, we're still seeing an
alarming rise in our global GHG levels every day. Energy production is
still our country's leading source of greenhouse gasses, accounting for 32%
of our total inventory. Similarly, energy use accounts for the bulk the
carbon footprint for most organizations.
The SOLUTION IS GREEN!
For clients that strive to lower their impact on the environment, Planet Energy Green offers both Renewable Energy and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECS) from a variety of EcoLogo Certified generation technologies, including low impact hydro, wind, solar and biomass. You can choose from a custom mix of Type I, II and III that best suits your criteria and budget.
Together with our customers, Planet Energy Green is helping to reshape the
electricity landscape by supporting renewable generation. By offering the
most flexible and competitive renewable energy options, today's organization
can't afford not to join the fight against global warming.
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A little about INTEGRITY.
When it comes to Green, Planet Energy Green knows how important it is to
provide our customers with the highest quality products, certified by
leading organizations, and meeting rigorous environmental standards. All
our environmental products are supported by transparent third party auditing
and reporting to ensure our customers can stand behind their claims of
Corporate Social Responsibility.
Planet Energy is an EcoLogoTM certified marketer of Commercial
green power. This means that all our power comes exclusively from
facilities that have been certified as low
impact by Environment Canada. EcoLogo is Canada's most widely recognized
and respected multi-attribute environmental certification mark and is
Environment Canada's certification standard for environmental products. To
achieve EcoLogo certification, Planet Energy and our generators must meet
rigorous environmental criteria.
To learn more about EcoLogo certification, visit www.environmentalchoice.com.
To download the criteria document for low-impact renewable electricity
generation, click here.
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Renewable Energy Certificates (REC)
A Renewable Energy Certificate allows customers to continue purchasing power under their current arrangement -be it contract or index- while separately sourcing the 'environmental benefits' of renewable energy generation. When a REC is purchased, Planet Energy Green ensures that an EcoLogo generation facility assigns the 'environmental benefit' of each MWh of renewable energy to you. Once purchased, the ownership of the 'environmental benefit' or REC is 'retired' by Planet Energy Green to ensure the reduction cannot be claimed by any other party.
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Carbon Neutral Natural Gas
Although it's often called the "clean burning fuel", there's no getting away
from the fact that Natural Gas is a non-renewable fossil fuel with a global
warming potential of almost 2kg per cubic meter. Using as little as 10,000
m3 has the same environmental impact as driving around 4 cars!
However, over the last 20 years natural gas has become the commodity of
choice for heating of office, retail or warehouse space, as well as fuelling
many industrial processes. Now, Planet Energy Green offers a unique
solution to our wide-spread reliance on this non-renewable fuel. By
offering a carbon-balanced Natural Gas product, customers can continue to
use existing natural gas equipment with only a neutral impact on the
environment. This affords the time to continue to searching out cleaner
technologies and fuel alternatives.
Carbon Neutral Natural Gas
When you choose Planet Energy Green Carbon Neutral Natural Gas, we invest in
carbon offsets from emission-reducing projects that balance off 100% of the
emissions resulting from your natural gas use. The supported projects are
independently verified to meet the Voluntary Carbon Standard and may include
wind power generation, sustainable forestry, landfill gas capture and
biofuels.
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Carbon Offsets
When it comes to carbon offsetting, Planet Energy Green offers high quality,
independently verified carbon offsets from a variety of projects around the
globe. You can either choose from one of our standard portfolios, or we
will work with you to procure a custom portfolio that meet your criteria and
budget.
All Planet Energy carbon offset projects are third party verified to meet
the Voluntary Carbon Standard Program or ISO 14064-2, as well as registered, serialized and retired on public registries such as TZ1, or the CSA GHG CleanProjects Registry. Offering both Compliance and Voluntary offsets, Planet Energy Green is committed to helping our clients reach their commitments of carbon neutrality.
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Current Offset Portfolio
Xinjiang China Wind Power Project
Northwest China’s growing demand for electricity is primarily supplied by the abundant coal available in the local area. Since coal is a non-renewable fossil fuel, the impact on both the local environment and the global atmosphere is significant.
Xinjiang Xiaocaohu Wind Power Project offers a combination of positive environmental, economic and sustainable development benefits. The 49.5MW wind power farm will supply 116.255GWh per year of clean, renewable on-grid power to Northwest China, displacing coal-fired generation and avoiding 109,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, the project improves the local environment by avoiding sulphur emissions, increases the standard of living through local job creation (50 jobs at project), and supports development of local economy by utilizing domestic made state-of-the-art wind turbines.
Type: Renewable Energy (on-grid wind)
Location: China
Operator: Xinjiang Huadian Xiaocaohu Wind Power Co., Ltd
Volume: 109,000+ tonnes CO2-e per year
Status: Active
Certification: VCS: Voluntary Carbon Standard
Verifier /DOE: SGS UK Ltd.
Verification Certificate: View Certificate
Documentation: CDM Project Description Document
View Registered Ownership: MarkIt Environmental Registry (Search "Xinjiang")
Agricultural Waste Cogeneration
Textile mills in India require relatively large amounts of energy, both to produce process steam and to generate electricity to run plant equipment. In most cases, plant operators burn
polluting coal or heavy fuel oil to produce heat for steam, and import electricity from India’s fossil fuel-dominated transmission grid. As a result, the textile industry, while an important driver of economic development and employment across India, also contributes to India’s rapidly growing carbon footprint.
The Punjab Textile Industry Rice Husk Cogeneration project was the first of its kind in Punjab state to use rice husks to provide thermal energy and electricity. Rice husks are produced in large quantities by local farmers, and are traditionally burned in the field. This project makes use of a locally occurring resource to fire the textile mill’s boiler and produce process steam. By installing a cogeneration system, this steam also runs a turbine that generates electricity. As a result, the textile mill has been able to eliminate the use of fossil fuels and imported electricity to power its operations, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by thousands of tonnes of CO2 per year.
Over and above the carbon reductions, the textile plant’s environmental management system is ISO 14001 certified, and includes many additional environmental reduction initiatives. The project also provides added income to local farmers from the sale of their rice husks.
The project owners supply clothing to the local market, as well as major international brands you may buy products from including The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, and Marks & Spencer.
Type: Cogeneration
Location: India
Operator: Nahar Industries Enterprises Ltd.
Verifier: DNV – Det Norske Veritas Certification
Project Volume: 47, 853 tonnes CO2-e
Vintage: 2005
Project Status: Underway
Verification: VCS
Verifier: DNV Det Norske Vertitas
Documentation: on request
Coal Mine Methane Destruction
Coal Mine Gas (CMM) is an unavoidable occurrence of hard coal mining. CMM
mainly consists of the harmful green-house-gas methane, which is 21 times more potentent that carbon dioxide. Even after the shutdown of the mining activities the CMM escapes over many years through open shafts and cracks in the overburden, directly or diffuse, into the atmosphere.
In the Ewald Coal Mine Methane Destruction project methane is extracted from an abandoned German coal mine and burned in co-generation units to produce electrical power which displaces conventionally produced power.
Type: Methane Destruction
Location: Germany
Operator: Minegas GmbH and Carbon-TF B.V.
Verifier: TÜV-Nord
Volume: 50,000+/year tonnes CO2-e
Vintage: 2007
Project Status: Underway since 2003.
Certification: VCS II
Verifier: TUV Nord
Documentation: Validation Report and verification Report
View Registered Ownership: Bank of New York, Carbon T.F.
Enfoui-bec Post Industrial Waste Composting
The Enfoui-Bec project site is located is located near Trois-Rivière, Quebec. The project takes waste from pulp and paper companies and produces compost instead of putting it into landfills. The goal of the initiative is to is to reduce the direct environmental impact caused by the waste, such as methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas. Methane is a gas that is released with anaerobic biomass decay in a landfill environment. By composting, the methane production is reduced through aerobic treatment (or composting) of the biomass. The compost produced is use for local farm land fertilization.
For more information, visit: WWW.GHGREGISTRIES.CA
View Registered Ownership: CSA GHG CleanProjects Registry
Soderglen Wind Farm Project
The Soderglen Wind farm Project employs 47 state of the art wind turbines with a rating of 1.5 MW each producing a total capacity of 70.5 MW. The turbines power is collected through a medium voltage collection system to the main substation. At the main substation the voltage is increased to 138 kV for direct connection to the Alberta Interconnected Electrical System via a 12 kilometre interconnection line. Based on Alberta’s Quantification Protocol for Wind-Powered Electrical Generation Version 1, March 2008, this project will avoid approximately 0.65 tonnes CO2e GHG for every mega-watt hour of electricity produced, by replacing traditional coal-powered generation.
For more information: WWW.GHGREGISTRIES.CA
View Registered Ownership: CSA GHG CleanProjects Registry
Des Plaines Landfill Methane Capture (LFG)
The Des Plaines Landfill Methane Recovery and Destruction Project located in northern Illinois near the city of Des Plaines, captures and destroys fugitive methane and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) from a closed former waste handling and disposal (solid waste management) site.
The Project includes gas collection and power generation systems to produce in total about 13 million kWH of electricity per year, or enough to power 1,300 households.
Location: USA
Operator: Sexton Energy
Volume: 100,000+ tonnes CO2-e per year
Status: Active
Certification: VCS: Voluntary Carbon Standard
Verifier /DOE: First Environmental
Verification Report: View Certificate
Documentation: VCS Project DESIGN Document
(PDD)
View Registered Ownership: MarkIt Environmental Registry
Custom Project Sourcing
In addition to the projects in our current portfolio, Planet Energy is able to source custom projects that meet your specific technology, regional or standards program requirements, including Gold Standard, VCS, CCAR, Alberta Protocol, ISO, CSA CleanProjects and more.
All Planet Energy carbon offsets are supplied by LivClean, a top ranked carbon offset retailer, as rated by the David Suzuki & Pembina Institute. For more information on LivClean, visit www.livclean.ca
Generation Resources
Planet Energy Green Electricity is sourced from these low-impact hydro Eco-Logo™ certified generation facilities and added directly to the Ontario grid in a volume equal to our green customers' actual electricity consumption.
| Facility | Location | Installed Capacity (MW) |
Type I | Type II |
| Andrews | Montreal River | 42.0 | 34.9 | 7.1 |
| Hogg | Montreal River | 18.0 | 16.7 | 1.3 |
| Gartshore | Montreal River | 23.0 | 23.0 | - |
| MacKay | Montreal River | 60.0 | 45.0 | 15.0 |
| Scott | Michipicoten River | 22.0 | 16.5 | 5.5 |
| McPhail | Michipicoten River | 11.0 | 10.1 | 0.9 |
| Dunford | Michipicoten River | 45.0 | - | 45.0 |
| Hollingsworth | Michipicoten River | 23.0 | 23.0 | - |
| Mission | Magpie River | 15.0 | - | 15.0 |
| Harris | Magpie River | 12.0 | - | 12.0 |
| Steephill | Magpie River | 16.0 | - | 16.0 |
| Clergue | St. Mary's River | 52.0 | 52.0 | - |
This list of Generating Facilities is provided on an indicative basis and remains subject to change.
