Interested in selling your Renewable Energy Certificates? CPCNH is now able to aggregate RECs from small photovoltaic (PV) systems! 

We will pay $35/REC for 2024 vintage and 2025 vintage NH Class II RECs. 

 

Interested in having CPCNH aggregate your RECs? Please read and follow the instructions below.

Instructions: 

If you have never registered your system with the New Hampshire Department of Energy (NH DOE) to generate RECs, you must follow the 8-step process detailed below. If, however, you have previously registered your system with the NH DOE to generate RECs but have never contracted with a REC aggregator, or if you are already selling your RECs to an aggregator other than CPCNH, do not follow the 8-step process below; instead, please email us for a different (and simpler) set of instructions. 

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​Please note: Registering your system to generate and sell RECs is a multi-step process. There are state and regional regulatory requirements that must be met. Even when everything goes smoothly, the process can still take a while. We have tried to make this process as easy as possible for you by (A) laying out these instructions, (B) making all required forms fillable and pre-filling the portions that we can, and (C) handling those steps in the process that we are able to take care of ourselves (e.g., registering your system with NEPOOL GIS). Even so, this process will require some work and attention to detail on your end. Before launching in, please review all eight steps listed below to make sure that you understand everything required. ​

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Step 1: Review CPCNH's Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Sale and Purchase Agreement, the current REC price as shown near the top of this page, as well as the rest of the steps in this list to determine whether you wish to proceed. 

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Step 2: If you do wish to proceed, sign and print your name and fill in the date on page 5 of the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Sale and Purchase Agreement, and then fill in all of the "Seller info" and "Facility info" in the Appendix (i.e., page 6). If needed, your installer should be able to help with the “Facility info” portion of the Appendix. Once you have finished, submit an electronic copy of the signed Agreement by uploading it here. CPCNH will retain the submitted Agreement with your signature until all other steps in this list have been completed, at which time CPCNH will fill in the remaining items in the Appendix (based on other information that you will have provided along the way), counter-sign the Agreement, and email you an electronic copy signed by both parties for your records. 

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Step 3: Review the REC Eligibility Application that the New Hampshire Department of Energy (NH DOE) requires to be completed, signed, and submitted. If your system is 100 kW-AC or less, review this application. If your system is over 100 kW-AC, email us to discuss your options and to obtain a different application. We have pre-filled as much of this information as we can; you are responsible for providing the remaining information and affirming the various attestations. If you need help with this task, ask the contractor who installed your system, as they should have all of this information handy. If you are working with an Independent Monitor,* they may be able to help you answer the various check boxes. Until you fill out this form and submit it to CPCNH for review, we have very little information about your system; as such, we are not able to help with this task. 

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Step 4: Complete and submit an electronic copy of the REC Eligibility Application form by uploading it here, along with the additional information that it requires (e.g., a copy of your interconnection agreement, including a certificate of completion). CPCNH will review your form and send it back to you if it is not complete, or if something looks amiss. 

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Step 5: Once CPCNH is satisfied that your REC Eligibility Application form is complete, we will use the information that you have supplied on that form to register your system within the New England Power Pool’s Generation Information System (NEPOOL GIS). NEPOOL GIS is New England’s official REC registry and is where the RECs generated by your system will be created. Registering your system with NEPOOL GIS will result in the creation of the “GIS Facility Code” that is requested at the top of the NH DOE application. CPCNH will add this GIS Facility Code to your NH DOE application and then send the application back to you to submit to the NH DOE (see next step, Step 6). Note that your NEPOOL GIS facility status will be listed as “Pending” until the NH DOE approves your application and notifies NEPOOL GIS that it has certified your system as eligible to generate RECs. 

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Step 6: Once you have received the NH DOE’s REC Eligibility Application back from CPCNH with the GIS Facility Code filled in, you must email the completed form to NH DOE at recapplicationgroup@energy.nh.gov. For the email subject line, we suggest “REC Eligibility Application attached.” For the body of the email, we suggest “Attached, please find a completed REC Eligibility Application for my PV system. I own this system and grant CPCNH permission to aggregate the RECs generated by this system.” Include your contact info as well. After submitting the completed form via email, please monitor your email for potential responses from NH DOE, in case they have any questions on your application.

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Step 7: Once NH DOE approves your REC Eligibility Application and issues a certificate of eligibility for your facility, CPCNH will (A) fill in the remaining items in the Appendix of the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) Sale and Purchase Agreement that you signed back in Step 2, (B) countersign that same Agreement, and (C) email you an electronic copy of the Agreement containing both signatures for your records. 

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Step 8: The next step involves NH DOE informing NEPOOL GIS that they have certified your facility. Depending on the certification date, this step could take a few weeks as NH DOE informs NEPOOL GIS of new certifications only once a month. Once NEPOOL GIS receives this news, it will switch your account status from “Pending” to “Approved,” at which point your system will be ready to generate RECs! 

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* The NH DOE maintains a list of approved Independent Monitors. Note that if your system has the right kind of inverter/meter (meaning that it meets the NEPOOL GIS meter accuracy requirements and has reporting capabilities), you can forego hiring an Independent Monitor. For example, SolarEdge offers a number of products that meet this threshold; other inverter manufacturers may as well. Talk to your installer early in the process to see whether they can provide the necessary approved equipment.