Publish Date: April 20, 2016
Topics: State Policy, California Engagement
Publish Date: April 11, 2016
Topics: State Policy, California Engagement, Advanced Energy Employment
Publish Date: April 5, 2016
In August 2015, a collaborative led by the Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI) published a position paper entitled Toward a 21st Century Electricity System in California.
The position paper outlined a broad vision of how stakeholders in California can work together to achieve the state’s ambitious energy and environmental objectives and was produced by a working group that included representatives of investor-owned utilities (IOUs), the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and more than a dozen advanced energy companies active in California.
Topics: California Engagement
Publish Date: February 26, 2016
Topics: State Policy, California Engagement
Publish Date: February 24, 2016
Topics: Federal Priorities
Publish Date: February 5, 2016
Advanced energy is a $1.4 trillion global industry, as big as fashion, twice the size of airlines, and close to worldwide spending on media and entertainment.
The U.S. advanced energy market is now $200 billion, nearly double the revenue of beer, more than pharmaceutical manufacturing, and approaching wholesale consumer electronics. Solar PV revenue grew 21% over last year, wind was up 75%, building efficiency grew 11%, and energy storage multiplied over 10 times year-to-year.
Publish Date: January 28, 2016
A growing majority of the world’s largest corporations have set sustainability targets that involve increased utilization of renewable energy.
These companies have realized that renewable energy investments have a positive impact on the bottom line because they offer a fixed-priced, long-term power supply that protects against rising electricity costs. Meeting these corporations’ sustainability targets will require thousands of additional megawatts (MW) of renewable energy, and represents a tremendous market opportunity.
Topics: State Policy
Publish Date: January 26, 2016
AEE submitted comments on the Proposed Federal Plan and Model Trading Rules, which are intended to ensure that the Clean Power Plan sends a uniform market signal across the country and facilitates state planning.
AEE supports EPA’s use of market-based trading in both mass- and rate-based compliance plans. However, AEE believes that certain elements of each plan type as proposed will impede the deployment of cost-effective advanced energy measures.
Topics: Federal Priorities
Publish Date: January 8, 2016
This Is Advanced Energy profiles 52 distinct technologies and services that make up advanced energy today: how they work, how they are currently deployed, and how they are changing our energy system.
Across the country, these technologies are being used to lower costs for consumers, improve reliability and resilience, offer more customer choice and control, and increase market competition.
Publish Date: January 5, 2016
AEE welcomes the concept of the Clean Energy Incentive Program as a tool to accelerate the deployment of advanced energy.
If implemented to its full potential, the program would be a step toward modernizing the U.S. electric power system while expediting emission reductions and lowering the cost of compliance.
Topics: Federal Priorities