An orgnaization promoting the world's most effective renewable energy policies: Renewable Energy Payments (or feed-in tariffs). ARE, the Alliance for Renewable Energy, with a focus on North America, is an alliance of policymakers, renewable energy experts, citizens, research institutions, and large and small businesses that came together in the Spring of 2008. Our goal is to rapidly increase the shift from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy. Our strategy is to create awareness of and build support for ‘the world’s most effective renewable energy policies’—‘Renewable Energy Payments (REPs).