The BeGreen Promise

We Embrace the Principles of integrity, accuracy and verifiability.

Integrity

At BeGreen product integrity is our number one priority. Our carbon offsets products come from the highest quality projects. We strive to provide our customers with a diverse portfolio of resources at cost effective prices. When you calculate and purchase BeGreen Carbon Offsets, your purchase is used in one of three ways:

Buying renewable energy credits (RECs) from solar, wind and biomass facilities around the country – many of them created as a result of our customer demand. Learn more about the Green Mountain wind and solar facilities.
Funding reforestation projects through our partnership with organizations like the Arbor Day Foundation, American Forests, and the Pacific Forest Trust. Tour the Van Eck Forest Project and hear PFT President Laurie Wayburn describe its climate benefits.
Supporting other carbon offset projects – for example, methane capture projects certified by the Voluntary Carbon Standard.

We also source high quality renewable energy credits from wind, solar, hydro, and biomass facilities nationally. Since our inception our customer support for new renewable energy has enabled us to help build over 35 Green Mountain Energy wind and solar installations to date.

Accuracy

The methodology used in our online calculator follows the EPA Climate Leaders methodology which is in turn based on the WRI GHG Protocol. Our calculator has been verified and approved by a third party industry accepted organization. To read their letter of verification, please click here.

Verifiability

We know that our customers want to be certain that their dollars are going to investments in high quality carbon offset projects. To address this, we have an independent auditing firm review all of our purchases and sales every year. This ensures that, dollar-for-dollar, our customer purchases match up with our purchases of high quality carbon offsets. Click on the following links to read our current and past audit reports: 2007 audit report, 2006 audit report.

Continuous Improvement

We are committed to continually improving the way that we do business and interacting with our customers. Your opinions are important to us and they help us make our business better over time. We want to hear from you!

Since our inception, Green Mountain Energy customers have helped avoid over 4,900,000 metric tons of CO₂. That has the equivalent environmental impact of taking over 870,000 cars off the road for one year or recycling over 24,000,000,000 aluminum cans.