By Tanner Garrity There’s a video on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s YouTube channel, uploaded in 2015, which offers an optimistic introduction to “renewable energy credits,” defined as an emerging currency in the renewable energy market. “They allow people and organizations to choose cleaner sources of energy and reduce their carbon footprints,” the narrator explains. “RECs give you the flexibility to support renewable energy even if you can’t generate it yourself or if your local utility doesn’t offer a green power product…By buying RECs, you’re providing revenue to support renewa…