Advanced Energy United Reports

On November 9, 2016, AEE sent a memo to the Transition Committee of President-elect Trump with recommendations with recommendations for modernizing the electric power system as part of infrastructure rebuilding, transforming utility business models to accelerate the adoption of advanced energy technologies, and ensuring that all technologies get to compete to achieve objectives.

As states across the country figure out how to reduce carbon emissions in the electric power sector under EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) rule, some states are also beginning to look at how they will administer the compliance plan that gets them to their CPP target.

State and federal air regulators face challenges in the form of budgetary and staff constraints, and inexperience with ways advanced energy technologies can be used to reduce carbon emissions. As EPA itself has indicated, one solution to this challenge is to turn to outside organizations for help.