Publish Date: April 3, 2015
This report, prepared by Meister Consultants Group for the Advanced Energy Economy Institute and the Virginia Advanced Energy Industries Coalition, analyzes two possible scenarios for Virginia’s compliance with the U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan to reduce carbon emissions from the electric power sector.
Topics: State Policy
Publish Date: March 13, 2015
Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI), the Alliance for Clean Energy New York (ACENY), and the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC) have been filing joint comments with the New York Department of Public Service (DPS) in the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Proceeding.
Topics: PUCs
Publish Date: March 9, 2015
Advanced energy is a nearly $1.3 trillion global industry, as big as apparel and almost four times the size of semiconductor manufacturing worldwide.
U.S. advanced energy market is $200 billion, up 14% vs. 2013, 5x the growth rate of the U.S. economy overall.
Publish Date: March 6, 2015
In November 2014, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued an “initial reliability review” in which it identified elements of the CPP that could lead to reliability concerns. Echoed by some grid operators and cited in comments to EPA submitted by states, utilities, and industry groups, the NERC study has made reliability a critical issue in finalizing, and then implementing, the Clean Power Plan.
Topics: Federal Priorities
Publish Date: March 4, 2015
Energy efficiency refers to all the ways we can reduce the amount of energy we use to meet our needs. Typically less than half the cost of additional power generation, energy efficiency is the most affordable way to meet energy needs and it creates local jobs installing energy saving products and materials. States have adopted policies that promote energy efficiency to help businesses and consumers save money, stimulate the economy, and avoid the need for more power plants.
Topics: Energy Efficiency
Publish Date: February 6, 2015
California is the nation's most populous state and the nation's leader in policies to promote secure, clean, affordable energy. It should be no surprise that California has a large and growing advanced energy economy as a result.
AEEI recently produced a first-time survey that found that the Golden State is home to more than 40,000 businesses serving advanced energy markets, spanning the entire value chain and including a wide range of energy technologies that address both supply and demand.
Publish Date: July 14, 2014
Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI), AEE's educational and charitable affiliate, commissioned Pike Research, a part of Navigant, to perform, for the first time, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the advanced energy markets in the U.S. and globally.
Their report, The Economic Impacts of Advanced Energy, identifies seven broad industry segments, which are further broken down to 41 distinct subsegments representing specific technologies, products, or services.