The Regenerative Energy® Solar Standard is a straight-forward and easy-to-use standard and certification process that helps you meet your design, operations, and conservation goals.
This standard provides guidance, structure, and recognition for solar developers wanting to increase the environmental, social, and economic benefits of a solar energy project. Developed in alignment with globally accepted protocols for sustainability standards and social value determinations, the Regenerative Energy® Solar Standard provides a roadmap for the holistic design, construction, and operation of solar power plants, while aligning with global efforts to address the major societal challenges we face today.
Aligns with Global Efforts to Address Society’s Greatest Challenges
The global community relies on nature-based solutions to protect people, optimize infrastructure, and safeguard a stable and biodiverse future. We designed the Regenerative Energy® Solar Standard to meet the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions and help meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our standard also provides an additional solar industry-specific contribution to keeping human-induced warming to less than 1.5 degrees below pre-industrial levels.
A Regenerative Energy® project helps address multiple societal challenges, including climate change, food security, water security, and economic and social development. Regenerative Energy® will not single handedly solve these challenges, but it can transform the way the solar industry designs and constructs facilities and manages land. Through this transformation, it provides the industry with the opportunity to be a small yet important part of the global effort to address societal challenges, including reversing climate change.
A Standard that Provides Multiple User Benefits
- Learn from best practices proven by others.
- Follow a process that incorporates input from and has been vetted by experts in the field and key stakeholders.
- Align your project with global efforts to meet societal challenges.
- Receive global recognition for implementing a Nature-based Solution and meeting the IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions.
- Realize credibility through third-party verification of conformance to the Regenerative Energy® Solar Standard.
- Gain recognition, increased social license to operate, and market differentiation through certification.
Incorporates Regenerative Energy® EcoMetrics
The Regenerative Energy Solar Standard offers you the option to apply Regenerative Energy® EcoMetrics to a project. This is an equally robust and transparent, stakeholder-informed methodology to accurately track, assess, and capture, in an audit-ready report, the full value of environmental, social, and economic impacts of the project. Applying Regenerative Energy® Ecometrics to a project will greatly assist the project developer in meeting the Regenerative Energy® Solar Standard criteria.
