Advanced Energy United Reports

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. 

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.

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. 

"Modeling Low Cost Approaches to Clean Power Plan Compliance for Virginia" shows that implementing EPA's Clean Power Plan could have minimal impact on electricity costs in Virginia, and even provide savings for ratepayers, compared with projected energy costs in 2030. Those are the findings of multiple scenarios run through STEER, a new analytic tool developed for the Advanced Energy Economy Institute and applied to Virginia-specific data. 

A majority of the nation’s largest companies have set corporate targets that involve increased utilization of renewable energy and energy efficiency. While targets vary from company to company, one thing is true across the board: Meeting them has to make economic sense.

Happily, as many companies have already discovered, investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency has a positive impact on the bottom line. Energy efficiency lowers energy use, thereby reducing costs; renewable energy offers stably-priced, long-term supply that protects against rising electricity costs.

"Modeling Low Cost Approaches to Clean Power Plan Compliance for Arkansas" shows that implementing EPA's Clean Power Plan could have minimal impact on electricity costs in Arkansas, and even provide savings for ratepayers, compared with projected energy costs in 2030. Those are the findings of multiple scenarios run through STEER, a new analytic tool developed for the Advanced Energy Economy Institute and applied to Arkansas-specific data.