Forward Clean Energy Market could be next best thing to a US carbon price

摘要

The creation of a Forward Clean Energy Market could complementexisting US wholesale power markets by adding a new market featuringa forward auction for clean energy attributes, an executive said Friday.As an increasing number of US cities and states enact policies totransition to 100% clean or renewable energy it will be difficult toaffordably achieve those goals using traditional policy tools, consultantBrattle Group argues in a report titled “How States, Cities, andCustomers Can Harness Competitive Markets to Meet AmbitiousCarbon Goals,” that was prepared for energy provider NRG Energy.