"Energy Certificates" are analogous to risk-ratings of publicly traded securities. Certification grades GHG emissions of firm, and that is the current basis of open market carbon credit allocations and "green tag" retail price discounts.
Green-e (EIA endorsed, fwiw) http://www.green-e.org/base/pl_products
Chicago Climate Exchange http://www.chicagoclimateexchange.com/
Regional RPS/carbon credit trade market http://www.rggi.org/home
Social Investment Forum http://www.socialinvest.org/
Peswiki - a bazaar of early-stage firms for private placement of your capital, perhaps. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
A thoughtful investor will integrate geography, state legislated Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) minima and compare corporate CapEx strategies in order to determine the future market value of "green" financial instruments and externalized costs of the ongoing concern -- for example, the cooperative, municipal or publicly-traded utility company from which you purchase (or "sell" surplus home-generated) electricity or which fund residential rebates of the cost of energy efficient equipment.
Union of Concerned Scientists - interactive RPS database http://go.ucsusa.org/cgi-bin/RES...l? template=main
US - EIA energy distribution map http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/ Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Jerome, the above information may well be what I was asking for. Does it make sense to you to make this sort of collected information into a general posting? I am hoping that there could be an information source that provides this in a manner that does not have a conflict of interest or a self-interested motive. It's discouraging to continue to read postings of people going into survivalist mode.
Otherwise, trading on CCX for profit is blowing a bubble. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
I regret to say I'm unwilling to name a particular company. That's the reason I posted advisory sources with a caveat to define your investment decision according to any issuers prospectus of absolute GHG reduction. Many will fake "green" investors, and USC enacted by Congress will capitalized and permit such opportunists to mark-to-market asset amortization of future compliance with (minimal) RPS.
You've got to verify what capital expenditure (YoY or QoQ) each company in which you'll invest has actually committed to the principles (above) -- retail subsidy (switching costs!) and plant. CapEx illustrates the path of transition from conventional fossil-fuel extortion to renewable resource cooperation.
To my mind, theories of "demand-side" or "supply-side" management are irrelevant to real economy growth expectations in any one HH. That position is perforce ambiguous (profit motivated) and too abstract in scope to ease benefit decisions in any one HH according to risk and political volatility.
I'm on the "just do it!" ethical platform. Allocate your disposable income between (1) energy efficiency at home (NB. demand for consultation, repair, and equipment!); and (2) aggressive discrimination, object-oriented invesment in long-term "soft" (qualitative) AND "hard" (quant, monetary) returns. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
