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Bullfrog Power is a Canadian green energy retailer operating in Canada. Bullfrog offers its customers power from renewable energy sources, such as wind, low-impact hydro and green natural gas, a renewable biogas product that serves as an alternative to fossil fuel-based natural gas. Bullfrog only sources electricity from generation sources that meet or exceed the federal government's Environmental Choice Program EcoLogo standard for renewable electricity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EcoLogo Program Certified : Green Products : Electricity - Marketer, Residential Power )〕 Bullfrog's green natural gas product is produced at facilities that have met environmental standards as defined by ICF International.〔(Operating Criteria and Quantification Methodology for Green Natural Gas. ) ICF International. Retrieved 2012-03-12.〕 Across Canada, Bullfrog's electricity comes exclusively from regionally sourced wind and hydro facilities.〔(Bullfrog Power Products. ) Bullfrog Power. Retrieved 2013-07-23.〕 Bullfrog's green natural gas is produced at the Dépôt Rive-Nord, a biogas facility in Quebec.〔(Green Natural Gas Project. ) Bullfrog Power. Retrieved 2012-03-12.〕 ==Operation== Bullfrog Power does not inject the green electricity or green natural gas directly into a customer’s home or facility, as doing so would require building parallel energy distribution systems, which are observed to be neither environmentally nor financially sound. Instead, Bullfrog ensures that the electricity being put into the grid on its customers’ behalf is from renewable sources. For every MWh of clean, renewable electricity that is produced and injected onto the grid by a green power generator, a corresponding Green Electricity Certificate (GEC) is created to represent the positive environmental benefits (such as emissions reductions) associated with producing that green power. Bullfrog uses a customer’s premium to secure and retire Green Electricity Certificates from wind or low-impact hydro generators on the customer’s behalf. This entitles the customer to claim the GECs—or green energy and associated emissions reductions—on his or her behalf. The price premium for a residential customer to purchase green electricity from Bullfrog is about $1 extra a day. Similar to the way its green electricity offering works, Bullfrog secures and retires Green Natural Gas Certificates on behalf of customers, enabling customers to claim the green energy and associated environmental benefits on their behalf. Bullfrog Power's sister company, Less Emissions Inc., provides CDM Gold Standard, EcoLogo and VER+ Standard-certified carbon offsets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bullfrog Power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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