Renewable Energy Certificate Contracts on Nodal Exchange

Learn more about trading Renewable Energy Certificate futures and options on Nodal Exchange.

REC CONTRACTS ON NODAL EXCHANGE

Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) markets operate across North America in state and regional programs, as compliance or voluntary markets. IncubEx and Nodal Exchange have collaborated to offer the broadest set of REC products across major registries including:

Compliance REC RegistriesVoluntary REC Registries
PJMERCOT (Texas)
NEPOOLM-RETS
NY-GATS (New York)NAR
WREGIS

Contract Overviews

REC Futures

  • Physically delivered contracts, from defined REC registries
  • Contract size: Varies from 10 to 1,000 RECs
  • Priced in U.S. dollars per REC
  • Minimum tick size: $0.001 to $0.01
  • Last Trading Day: Three Business Days, prior to the last business day of the delivery month
  • Physical Delivery: Last Business Day of the contract month

 

REC Options

  • Options on Futures
  • European style (exercise only at expiry)
  • Futures Style Margining
  • Lot size: 1 lot of underlying contract
  • Priced in US dollars
  • Minimum tick size: $0.001
  • Strike Price Intervals:
    • $0.05 for TX
    • $0.05 for PJM Tri-Qualified
    • $1.00 for NJ Solar
    • $5.00 for MA
  • Solar and $0.25 for all others
  • Last Trading Day: 4:00 pm EPT on the 15th calendar day of the delivery month
  • Exercise: Automatic on last trading day, unless exchange is notified to allow in-the-money options to expire without exercise or to exercise expiring out-of-the-money options.

Renewable Energy Certificates

REGISTRIES

The products highlighted in green are only available on Nodal Exchange.
All tick sizes for environmental contracts for REC futures are $0.01 and for REC options are $0.001

About RECs

Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) markets are created through Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) programs, which are generally implemented at the state level. Currently, 30 states plus Washington D.C. have RPS Programs.

 

RECs have different classifications, including:

Class I RECs

  • Solar photovoltaic
  • Wind
  • Small hydropower
  • Landfill methane and anaerobic digester gas
  • Marine or hydrokinetic
  • Geothermal

Class II RECs

  • Often involve alternative energy such as: burning solid waste at extremely high temperatures to generate electricity or steam power.

Class III RECs

  • Include combined heat and power systems and waste heat recovery systems.

Voluntary REC products on Nodal, (sometimes called hybrid compliance/voluntary RECs) deliver RECs from registered facilities listed with the Center For Resource Solutions (CRS) in connection with the administration of its Green-e® certification programs. Additional voluntary wind and solar RECs also are offered on Nodal from select registries including: ERCOT, NAR and M-RETS.

(See the full list of compliance and voluntary REC products above or on the products page)

The CRS logo, the Green-e® name and logos, among others are marks owned and administered by the Center for Resource Solutions

Key benefits of trading on Nodal Exchange

  • Broadest exchange suite of REC futures contracts
  • More efficient physical delivery process
  • Letters of credit available as collateral against Initial Margin requirements
  • Capital efficiency potential through Portfolio (VAR based) margining
  • Products listed and cleared alongside Nodal’s existing power and gas product suite
  • Competitive transaction costs
  • No membership or market data fees
  • Experienced team dedicated to product development and customer support

Key benefits of trading on Nodal Exchange

  • Broadest exchange suite of REC futures contracts
  • More efficient physical delivery process
  • Letters of credit available as collateral against Initial Margin requirements
  • Capital efficiency potential through Portfolio (VAR based) margining
  • Products listed and cleared alongside Nodal’s existing power and gas product suite
  • Competitive transaction costs
  • No membership or market data fees
  • Experienced team dedicated to product development and customer support

About Nodal Exchange

Nodal Exchange, headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA, is a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants in the North American commodity markets. Part of EEX Group, Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world’s largest set of electric power locational (nodal) futures contracts and offers over 1,000 power, gas, environmental, natural gas and freight futures, all cleared on Nodal Clear. IncubEx is partnered with Nodal on its North American environmental products.

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