Renewable Energy Certificates Literature Review Data and Supplementary Materials

Supplementary materials and structured data from a systematic literature review on Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), International RECs (I-RECs), and Guarantees of Origin (GOs). The review followed PRISMA 2020 guidelines and addressed five core research questions on investment, storage, regulation, demand, and business models. The dataset was created by Flavio Geraldo Nogueira and last updated in June 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of certificates on renewable energy investments based on the synthesized literature.
• Study regulatory designs for energy attribute tracking systems based on the review findings.
• Investigate business models enabled by Guarantees of Origin and related certificates.
• Examine demand-side motivations for purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates.

Strengths

• Follows the PRISMA 2020 statement guidelines for systematic reviews.
• Literature search was conducted systematically across Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection, and SSRN.
• Focuses on peer-reviewed articles and working papers published from 2020 onward to capture recent institutional changes.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Systematic literature review.

Time Range

Literature published from 2020 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-08 13:25:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global literature, with specific mentions of China's and Brazil's mechanisms.