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In this Huntington (WV) Herald Dispatch opinion piece, former editor of the newspaper Jim Ross rails against the President's proposed coal bailout and notes multiple instances in which the Public Services Commission has already prevented similar things from happening. AEE's Malcolm Woolf is quoted below. Link to the full article here. Excerpts below:

This Nevada Current article discusses the CEP and AEE's recently released Nevada Clean Energy Roadmap and the upcoming vote on Question 3, an amendment to Nevada's state constitution which would allow for greater competition in energy purchasing. Link to the full article here. Excerpts below:

Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., June 21, 2018 – Today, the Clean Energy Project (CEP) and the Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) announced they have delivered a policy roadmap to the Nevada gubernatorial campaigns of Republican nominee Adam Laxalt and Democratic nominee Steve Sisolak outlining how Nevada can grow as a clean energy leader and create jobs. The policy roadmap, “Nevada’s Clean Energy Roadmap: How the next governor can make Nevada’s energy system more secure, clean, and affordable while driving job creation and economic growth,” outlines key market-based policy considerations Nevada’s next governor can pursue to capture the billions in investment dollars and thousands of jobs that come from embracing the clean energy industry.

New Mexico Advanced Energy Roadmap Will Grow the Economy, Create Jobs

In this short GreenBiz article Makower summarizes a panel at Verge 17 featuring Chris Eugster, Val Jensen, Penni McLean-Connor, and AEE's Lisa Frantzis. Link to the article here, link to the interview here. Story below:

This Public News Service article discusses the massive savings advanced energy has already generated in Arkansas and the future savings advanced energy can produce. AEE's state partner, AAEA's executive director, Katie Niebaum, was asked about the state of Arkansas advanced energy.  Link to the full article here. Excerpts below:

California Advanced Energy Roadmap Will  Grow the Economy, Create Jobs 

This NBC Nightly News clip discusses the often critiqued Trump Coal bailout plan.  AEE's Malcolm Woolf took part in the segment which aired Sunday night 6/10/18.  Link to the full segment here.  Excerpts below:

This St. Louis Post Dispatch business opinion column discusses the cons associated with the proposal to subsidize coal and nuclear by requiring grid operators purchase those types of energy. Excerpts below. Read the entire column here.The proposal, reported last week by Bloomberg, would order grid operators to buy electricity from plants that are at risk of closing. A draft memo, which the Energy Department has not yet acted upon, argues that the plants need to stay open for national security reasons.“This is a solution in search of a problem,” says Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president at Advanced Energy Economy, a trade group representing both producers and consumers of electricity. “The idea of somehow singling out coal and nuclear as more secure doesn’t hold up.”“This proposal is not coming from the Department of Defense, and it is not coming from the grid operators,” Woolf says. “From all accounts this is coming from the president.”Coal isn’t inherently more reliable than natural gas or other forms of energy, he says.In fact, some recent emergencies have been coal-related: During Hurricane Harvey last year, some Texas power plants’ coal piles became so waterlogged they couldn’t be used.

This UtilityDive.com article reports on the latest national energy jobs report (USEER) and outlook by sector. Excerpts below. Read the entire article here. In reviewing report data, AEE calculates there are 3.4 million advanced energy jobs.