Community Energy, Inc. is a for-profit corporation founded by national leaders in wind-energy marketing to expand the market for clean electric supply. Driven by the strong natural appeal of wind-powered technology, CEI delivers the premium combination of economic, environmental, and public relations advantages that come with fuel-free electric supply. Under long-term arrangements with wind developers and electricity suppliers, CEI builds customer demand to support identified wind energy projects in the customer's region.

EAD Environmental is an aggressive and energetic marketer of renewable energy products and other environmental offsets. EAD Environmental specializes in the development and implementation of community-based customer enrollment programs that both educate and excite. The company supplies businesses, institutions, and individuals with Renewable Energy Certificates (RECertificates) and Environmental Action Certificates (EACertificates). These branded certificate products provide clients with a simple and effective way to offset their impact on the environment.

Green Mountain Energy Company is the leading retail provider of cleaner electricity in the nation. The company began in 1997, focusing on using the power of consumer choice to change the way power is made. Green Mountain offers electricity made from sources such as wind, water and natural gas; the company currently has over 600,000 customers in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas.

Conservation Services Group offers GreenerWatts New England in Massachusetts Electric and Nantucket Electric territory, and GreenerWatts Rhode Island in Narragansett Electric territory. The products are Green-e certified or ERT certified and consist of 100% renewable energy blended from a diverse supply of New England’s cleaner renewable resources including solar, wind, landfill gas and low impact hydropower. The Massachusetts product is offered through a partnership between CSG and the Center for Ecological Technology.

Mass Energy Consumers Alliance is a non-profit organization that both advocates and acts in the marketplace on behalf of consumers and the environment. Mass Energy has offered discount heating oil since 1982, and now offers clean energy products, including New England GreenStart(SM) and New England Wind(SM), as well as solar energy services. Mass Energy also engages in advocacy work serving all consumers and charitable programs benefiting low-income households and other nonprofit organizations.

People's Power & Light is a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to clean, safe and affordable energy for Rhode Islanders. PP&L, in collaboration with Mass Energy Consumers Alliance, is offering a zero-emission renewable electricity product for Narragansett Electric customers called New England GreenStart(sm). GreenStart consists of energy derived from wind, solar and small hydropower and is Green-e certified.

Sterling Planet is the first company to offer every U.S. home and business a way to reduce the environmental impact of regular electricity production. Sterling Planet is both a developer and marketer of clean energy - energy that is low impact, sustainable, diverse and domestically generated.

Product Certifiers

At least two organizations have created certification programs to evaluate clean energy products and give consumers a way to ensure that the products have met a specified standard for clean energy content.

The Green-e Renewable Electricity Certification Program is administered by the non-profit Center for Resource Solutions and based in the Presidio of San Francisco, California. Green-e provides an easy way for consumers to quickly identify environmentally superior electricity products in competitive markets. In each state where Green-e is active, the Green-e Program works with diverse stakeholders to form Regional Advisory Committees who ensure that the consumer protection and environmental standards of the Green-e Program work for their regions. When consumers see the Green-e logo, they can be sure that the renewable electricity product is verified annually for its power content and that the electricity provider selling the power has met the Green-e Program's environmental and consumer protection standards.

ERT (The Environmental Resources Trust, Inc.) is a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization that pioneers the use of market forces to protect and improve the global environment. Its EcoPowerSM Program catalyzes the market for clean energy by substantiating and marketing blocks of power that include new renewable sources of energy and have significantly reduced environmental impacts.

State and Federal Agencies

A variety of state and federal entities are involved with development and promotion of clean energy technologies.

Clean Energy States Alliance promotes clean energy by improving public and private investment strategies. Twelve states across the U.S. have established funds to promote renewable energy and clean energy technologies. The Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) is a non-profit project to provide information and technical services to these funds and to work with them to build and expand clean energy markets in the United States. Some of the funds are also listed below.

The Connecticut Clean Energy Fund invests in enterprises and other initiatives that promote and develop sustainable markets for energy from renewables and fuel cells that will benefit the ratepayers of Connecticut.

The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative is the state’s development agency for clean energy and the innovation economy, which is responsible for one-quarter of all jobs in the state. MTC works with cutting-edge companies to create new jobs and stimulate economic activity in communities throughout the Commonwealth. MTC administers the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, a fund created in 1998 by the Legislature as an essential component of efforts to restructure the electric utility industry and to promote the development of renewable energy in the Commonwealth.

The Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund is dedicated to increasing the role of renewable energy in Rhode Island’s electricity supply. Renewable energy technologies harness the energy in sunlight, the wind, biomass (growing plant matter and organic wastes) flowing water, waves, tides, or the heat of the earth, to make electricity in a cleaner and more sustainable manner than sources we have traditionally relied on in the past. The Fund, administered by the Rhode Island State Energy Office, has programs to help homeowners, businesses and institutions in choosing and purchasing clean energy systems, such as wind turbines and solar photovoltaic (“PV”) systems and electricity products available without leaving your current electric utility.

The United States Department of Energy has an Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) which runs many programs promoting both deployment and technical development of clean energy. The main page acts as an “energy information portal,” a gateway to hundreds of Web sites and thousands of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy. EERE also publishes a weekly e-mail newsletter, the EERE Network News, covering renewable energy developments across the country.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is the nation's primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides the majority of its funding; other funding comes from DOE's Office of Science and Office of Electricity Transmission and Distribution. NREL develops renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices, advances related science and engineering, and transfers knowledge and innovations to address the nation's energy and environmental goals.

Other Organizations

The American Council On Renewable Energy is a
non-profit organization in Washington, D.C. focused on accelerating the
adoption of renewable energy technologies into the mainstream of
American society through work in convening, information publishing and
communications.