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Washington, D.C., June 1, 2016 — Advanced Energy Economy issued the following statement in response to today's release of Implementing EPA's Clean Power Plan: Model State Plans by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA):

                  

As an ambitious proceeding intended to revolutionize the electricity marketplace in New York State, “Reforming the Energy Vision,” has generated a lot of filings, but none more noteworthy than the one submitted last week by New York’s six investor-owned utilities and three solar development companies – all members of AEE. Under the name of the Solar Progress Partnership, utilities including ConEdison and National Grid joined with SolarCity, SunEdison, and SunPower on a filing that put forth a framework for the transition from the current full-retail value of net metering to the REV-envisioned future of a new system of compensation for distributed energy resources (DER). Though it did not sign on to the filing, AEE Institute facilitated the discussions that led to this landmark statement between sometime industry antagonists over the issue that most divides them. 

In an article detailing the latest from the EPA's Clean Power Plan, Utility Dive pulled a quote from AEE's Arvin Ganesan from Climatewire. From the article:

USA Today this week detailed the discussions AEEI facilitated between utilities, solar companies, and other stakeholders in the New York Renewing the Energy Vision process. For more information on the behind-the-scenes of the discussions, check out our blog post, "Facilitating Utiliy-Solar Collaboration on Net Metering in New York." From the article in USA Today: 

NASEO, the National Association of State Energy Officials today published an article highlighting last month's release of Advanced Energy Now: 2016 Market Report. From the article:

Engerati today wrote about the release of AEEI's report, "Advanced Energy Jobs in California: Results of the 2016 California Advanced Energy Employment Survey," which explores the size and scope of employment in the advanced energy industry. From the article: 

REPORT: California’s Advanced Energy Industry Has More Than Half a Million Workers, Up 18 Percent from Last Year

GreenBiz published video of the panel "Grid 2.0: Toward an energy paradigm shift," which took place at the 2015 VERGE conference. The panel featured Dawn Lippert of the Energy Excelerator and Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative Advisory Board, Elisabeth Brinton of California utility PG&E, and Graham Richard from Advanced Energy Economy discussed new kinds of relationships and partnerships in order to faciliate this vision.