California utility companies are mixing coal- or gas-sourced energy with renewable energy, like solar-and wind-sourced, and packaging it to consumers as “green energy”—a process known as “green washing,” Jim Phelps, a 35-year veteran engineering contractor and utility rate analyst, said during an interview with Epoch TV’s “California Insider.”
The first greenwashing method energy companies use is through renewable energy, he said.
Energy sources that produce less than 30 megawatts of power are considered renewable energy sources in California.
Phelps said that for every megawatt of power a renewable energy source produces, a certificate is generated.
If a company decides to sell off the energy produced by renewable sources and label it “unspecified,” rather than green, they will be able to retain the green certificate….