Corporate Demand Growing for Clean Energy Certificates in Brazil

摘要

Corporate demand in Brazil is growing for renewable energy certificates, signaling that companies are using more renewable power from certified producers. Brazilian companies and local offices of multinationals, including Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, GE Global Research, and Nivea, the Germany-based personal-care brand, have bought 137,160 internation-ally registered renewable energy certificates (RECs) from 19 certified renewable power plants-50,000 in 2016 and 87,160 in the first eight months of 2017, Fernando Lopes, a partner at Instituto Totum, which certifies and issues RECs, told Bloomberg BNA.