At this very early stage of market development, it is unreasonable for Public Citizen to criticize the green product offerings for failure to achieve long-term environmental goals. Obviously, long-term goals cannot be achieved in a few months. If long-term benefits are to be achieved, they must stem from meaningful products, starting now. And the response certainly glows with rhetoric about individuals being free to choose green electricity and to vote with their dollars. What the response does not address is the adequacy of this market for the purpose of supporting renewables.
Markets can promote the public interest when they are properly designed.
The Public Citizen report specifically addresses the ways in which the green market as currently structured does not adequately promote renewables and deceives consumers.