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Julia Pyper, E&E reporter

Consultant report commissioned by Advanced Energy Economy Institute and filed with Public Service Commission offers new methods that take into account all benefits in judging value of efficiency, solar, and other investments

Building on AEE’s PUC Portal, New Tool Gives PowerSuite Users Exclusive Information on Regulatory Agencies, Energy Markets, and Utilities in Each State

"Advanced Energy Economy disagrees with the editorial’s assertion that the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan represents 'a cumbersome and expensive way to slash emissions,'" writes Malcom Woolf, AEE's senior vice president of policy and government affairs, in a  Letter to the Editor in today's Washington Post . "The EPA’s proposal underestimates available technologies that have proved cost-effective in reducing greenhouse gases and fails to take into account the technological progress that will occur by 2030. The emissions targets will spur investment in modernizing our electric power system."  Click here to continue reading .

SACRAMENTO – Nearly 300 of California’s top energy officials, industry leaders, policy makers and company representatives met yesterday in Sacramento at the second annual Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) Pathway to 2050 conference. The full day event featured speakers who addressed how California can create a prosperous economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

Drew Clark, opinion editor for Salt Lake City-based Deseret News, published an opinion piece this weekend that quoted Graham Richard, CEO of AEE. 

Over the weekend, Inside Bay Area published a guest opinion from AEE CEO Graham Richard and Recurrent Energy CEO Arno Harris. 

In the Newsbites section of its Overnight Energy feature, The Hill cited AEE testimony on the EPA's new rule:

With Solutions Provided by Advanced Energy Businesses, Emissions Reduction Is An Opportunity to Modernize the U.S. Electric System for the 21st Century

On May 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) Order 745, concerning Demand Response. FERC Order 745 established rules for compensating demand response when it participates in wholesale energy markets.   By using the latest information technology, demand response providers have developed cutting edge ways of managing electrical load – saving consumers money, stabilizing the grid, and avoiding brownouts.