I built a concept for a "National REC Debt Clock" — a…
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I built a concept for a "National REC Debt Clock" — a public tool tracking America's 3,500+ TWh clean energy deficit. Here's the white paper.
The US consumed approximately 4,260 TWh of electricity in 2025 — a new record. Total Renewable Energy Certificates retired nationally? Roughly 725 TWh. That's a clean energy deficit exceeding 3,500 TWh, and no public tool currently tracks it.
I've been working on a concept called the National REC Debt Clock — a public-facing visualization that does for our clean energy gap what the National Debt Clock did for fiscal policy. The methodology is simple: Total US Energy Consumed (EIA data) minus Total RECs Retired (registry data) = our national clean energy deficit.
The timing feels urgent. The GHG Protocol is revising Scope 2 toward hourly matching, sixteen state AGs are investigating tech companies' REC-based renewable claims, and AI data center energy demand is breaking records. Meanwhile there's no single public metric showing whether we're keeping pace.
I've attached the full white paper. Would genuinely appreciate feedback from people who work in this space — especially on the methodology, data aggregation challenges, and whether this would be useful as a real tool.
#industry
The US consumed approximately 4,260 TWh of electricity in 2025 — a new record. Total Renewable Energy Certificates retired nationally? Roughly 725 TWh. That's a clean energy deficit exceeding 3,500 TWh, and no public tool currently tracks it.
I've been working on a concept called the National REC Debt Clock — a public-facing visualization that does for our clean energy gap what the National Debt Clock did for fiscal policy. The methodology is simple: Total US Energy Consumed (EIA data) minus Total RECs Retired (registry data) = our national clean energy deficit.
The timing feels urgent. The GHG Protocol is revising Scope 2 toward hourly matching, sixteen state AGs are investigating tech companies' REC-based renewable claims, and AI data center energy demand is breaking records. Meanwhile there's no single public metric showing whether we're keeping pace.
I've attached the full white paper. Would genuinely appreciate feedback from people who work in this space — especially on the methodology, data aggregation challenges, and whether this would be useful as a real tool.
#industry
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