• psud
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    3 months ago

    Regarding the second part, there really is little difference between buying clean power here versus there. The net carbon spend goes down just exactly enough

    The only place it does matter is if you live near a coal plant you can’t directly fix your locality by buying green energy certificates

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      3 months ago

      True, but ensuring this is done on a shorter time scale (e.g. hourly) would take a lot of the green washing out of the certificate system IMO.