Element Markets, LLC is a limited liability company that provides environmental asset management and compliance services to institutional clients in North America. Its services span the greenhouse gas, emissions, and renewable energy credit markets

Emissions trading

Emissions trading is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants....

. Element Markets also develops renewable energy

Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...

 and greenhouse gas emission reduction (carbon offset

Carbon offset

A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....

) projects. Element Markets was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Element Markets is among the major companies in the environmental markets and has been recognized as such in industry publications, such as Environmental Finance and Energy Risk magazines.http://www.environmental-finance.com/envfin/EF08MarketSurvey.pdfhttp://www.risk.net/category/rankings/source/energy-risk

In December 2008, Element Markets installed a 20000 square feet (1,858.1 m²) solar photovoltaic

Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics is a method of generating electrical power by converting solar radiation into direct current electricity using semiconductors that exhibit the photovoltaic effect. Photovoltaic power generation employs solar panels composed of a number of solar cells containing a photovoltaic material...

 power system on the roof of the Shops at Mission Viejo, a California mall owned by the Simon Property Group

Simon Property Group

Simon Property Group, Inc. is an American commercial real estate company, ranked #1 in the United States as the largest real estate investment trust. Simon is a fully integrated real estate company which operates from five retail real estate platforms: regional malls, Premium Outlet Centers, The...

.http://www.ocregister.com/articles/mall-energy-solar-2300281-simon-properties At the time of installation, it was the largest rooftop solar project ever done by a mall operator.

On August 5, 2009, Element Markets completed the first-ever physical delivery of a Renewable Energy Credit (REC) futures contract on the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange.http://www.chicagoclimateexchange.com/news.jsf?story=3170