Credit to Canada
Canada’s Polaris Geothermal International has announced plans to become a major supplier of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs or carbon credits) to the expanding carbon market.

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, which is developing a 66MW geothermal project in
, has announced plans to become a major supplier of Certified Emissions Reductions to the expanding carbon market.
‘Eighteen months from now, we’ll be producing 160,000 carbon credits on an annual basis. From the beginning of 2010 this will increase to 340,000 per year,’ said Polaris CEO Tom Ogryzlo, ahead of a trip to
The sale of Certified Emissions Reductions, or carbon credits, provides Polaris with additional income over and above revenues from power sales. Polaris has a “take or pay” power purchase agreement to sell 66MW for 20 years to the Nicaraguan distribution subsidiaries of Union Fenosa, a large Spanish utility. In April 2006 Polaris became the first geothermal company to be registered to supply carbon credits by the UNFCCC.
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