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Tax Cut Success Stories Featured in New Education Campaign

Posted by Adam Winer on Feb 11, 2025

Introducing: UnlockingAdvancedEnergy.com

WASHINGTON, DC – National business association Advanced Energy United has launched a new website and campaign that tells the story of how advanced energy companies are using smart tax cuts to unlock American energy abundance, open new U.S. manufacturing plants, and lower household electricity costs in states across the country.

The website, UnlockingAdvancedEnergy.com, features the real stories of advanced energy projects – including a coal field converted into a solar farm in Southwest Virginia, a Central Pennsylvania church saving money thanks to a rooftop solar installation, a new battery manufacturing facility in California, and the deployment of an emissions-free school bus fleet in Illinois’s smallest county – that were only made possible thanks to the existing tax cuts that are at risk of being shelved by Congress despite the economic growth, cost savings, and access to grid resilience solutions they are enabling.

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Topics: Press Releases, Heather O'Neill, Federal Priorities

Advanced Energy United Congratulates Secretary Burgum and Secretary Wright on Their Cabinet Confirmation

Posted by Adam Winer on Feb 3, 2025

Bipartisan support expressed for continued investment in power grid infrastructure and electricity affordability.

WASHINGTON, DC – National business association Advanced Energy United congratulates Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Doug Burgum, and Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Chris Wright, on their respective Cabinet confirmations by the U.S. Senate.

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Topics: Press Releases, Heather O'Neill, Federal Priorities

Presidential Executive Orders Threaten Energy Affordability, Energy Reliability, and Jobs

Posted by Adam Winer on Jan 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – National business association Advanced Energy United responds to the series of "Day 1" executive actions taken by President Trump impacting the ability of our economy to meet growing demand for reliable and affordable energy. Heather O’Neill, President and CEO at Advanced Energy United, released the following statement:

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Topics: Press Releases, Federal Priorities

Advanced Energy United Congratulates Commissioner Christie on his Appointment to FERC Chair

Posted by Adam Winer on Jan 20, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, national business association Advanced Energy United congratulated Mark Christie on his appointment as Chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). 

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Topics: Wholesale Markets, Press Releases, FERC

COLLABORATE Act Provides Permitting Reform for Budding Offshore Wind Industry

Posted by Adam Winer on Dec 6, 2024

National business association Advanced Energy United endorses legislation that would improve permitting, coordination, and cooperation among agencies

WASHINGTON, DC – The Create Offshore Leadership and Livelihood Alignment by Operating Responsibly and Together for the Environment (COLLABORATE) Act was recently introduced by Senator Whitehouse of Rhode Island, which would provide offshore wind with important and complementary resources so it can grow into a powerful energy and job-producing industry.

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Topics: Press Releases, Offshore Wind, Federal Priorities

Americans To Miss Out on $100 Billion in Economic Benefits Unless Process for Connecting New Large-Scale Energy Projects to the Power Grid Is Fixed

Posted by Adam Winer on Nov 21, 2024

Fixing the ‘interconnection’ process would help states keep up with growing energy demands and dramatically increase job and economic opportunities

WASHINGTON, DC – The way that new large-scale energy resources plug in to the power grid is outdated and cumbersome, and a new report shows that fixing these so-called ‘interconnection’ processes could result in over $100 billion in economic benefits, and over one million years worth of work for Americans.

“Our nation’s electricity demands are growing, and these broken interconnection processes are standing in the way of Americans building the energy projects we need to thrive,” said Heather O’Neill, President and CEO at Advanced Energy United. “Fixing interconnection would unleash job-creating energy projects and deliver an economic boom in states across America. If states can more quickly build the poles and wires needed to connect new electricity resources to the power grid, they will unleash their economic potential, lower electricity bills for residents, and improve energy reliability for all.”

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Topics: Wholesale Markets, Press Releases, FERC

Advanced Energy United Endorses the RISEE Act

Posted by Adam Winer on Nov 18, 2024

Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act will direct more benefits to communities with offshore wind

WASHINGTON, DC – National business association Advanced Energy United is proud to endorse S.373, the Reinvesting in Shoreline Economies and Ecosystems (RISEE) Act, which was introduced by Senators Whitehouse and Cassidy. 

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Topics: Press Releases, Federal Priorities

Advanced Energy United Congratulates President Trump, Calls for Leaders to Leverage Advanced Energy Solutions to Meet America’s Growing Energy Challenges

Posted by Adam Winer on Nov 6, 2024

Continued investment in domestic manufacturing of advanced energy will create economic opportunity, while sustained deployment will help lower household energy costs

WASHINGTON, DC – National business association Advanced Energy United congratulates President-Elect Trump on his electoral victory and urges an energy agenda that leverages domestic production of advanced energy solutions to meet America’s growing energy challenges and lower energy costs.

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Topics: Press Releases, Federal Priorities

Clean Energy Industries Rally Behind Illinois Bills to Save Ratepayers $3 Billion Through Grid Modernization

Posted by Adam Winer on Oct 17, 2024

HB5856 and SB3959 will increase the reliability of the Illinois energy grid, protect ratepayers from rising costs, future-proof the economy, and help the state achieve climate goals

ILLINOIS – Illinois clean energy industries are unified in supporting HB5856 and SB3959, new legislation that will future-proof Illinois’ energy grid and economy, lower consumer costs, meet climate goals, create family-sustaining careers, and mitigate increasing risks of blackouts.

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Topics: State Policy, Press Releases, Illinois, Battery Storage

New Report Calls for Additional Generator Interconnection Reforms to Add New Electricity Sources to Power Grid More Quickly and Lower Consumer Costs

Posted by Adam Winer on Aug 27, 2024

Reforms needed to expeditegenerator interconnection amidst growing demand for electricity 

WASHINGTON, DC – Amid growing demand for electricity, a new report from Grid Strategies LLC and The Brattle Group recommends additional reforms to “generator interconnection,” the process by which new, large-scale energy resources are connected to transmission grids. The report, Unlocking America’s Energy: How to Efficiently Connect New Generation to the Grid, calls for new approaches to interconnection that can move new generation projects more quickly to completion while providing up-front cost certainty.  

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Topics: Wholesale Markets, Press Releases, FERC