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Ines Erdahl Kjelland's avatar

Thanks for your article. I have a question regarding the EACs sold by Norway: how is that different from regular voluntary carbon credits? Why is it more "cheating" than buying regular offsets?

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David Mytton's avatar

Offsets are not the same instrument. There's a spectrum, which starts at offsets then through EACs and PPAs, with some overlap as they're bundled or unbundled. https://www.ecocostsvalue.com/lca/gos-and-recs-in-lca/ describes the problems with these and I added a good comparison table between them all in my earlier post https://www.devsustainability.com/p/energy-systems-and-247-carbon-free from a report by Princeton https://www.dropbox.com/s/ela5hwzpb1tzmer/2021-11-16_24-7_Carbon-Free-Electricity.pdf?dl=0

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