Advocacy Updates

By Leigh Yeatts The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) introduced a sweeping package of federal energy programs aimed at accelerating the decarbonization of the electricity grid, including a provision that offers low-cost loans for utilities and other companies to replace or revitalize existing energy infrastructure, creating cost savings and grid resiliency benefits for customers. The […]

The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) welcomes the California Legislature’s passage today of California Assembly Bill 2368, which aims to improve the effectiveness of California’s electricity planning and procurement process. Addressing California’s current electricity procurement and grid reliability challenges is crucial, and CEBA urges California’s governor and state agencies to expedite signing the bill and […]

New Rules Will Enable Reliable, Affordable Energy and Economic Growth The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) today welcomed final regulations from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on regional transmission planning and cost allocation and interstate electric transmission permitting.  “U.S. innovation and economic growth increase demand for electricity in every state, and that means we […]

The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) today noted a letter agreement tied to the Georgia Public Service Commission’s approval of a settlement in Georgia Power’s 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Update calls for the utility to develop a new customer clean energy program that would allow large customers to bring clean energy projects to Georgia […]

Independently Governed Electricity Market Entity Would Bring Benefits Across the West The Clean Energy Buyers Association today welcomed a straw proposal released by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative that outlines needed steps to develop a new, independently governed entity to oversee an expanded West-wide organized wholesale electricity market and related functions. “A new, independently governed […]

Expanded Markets Will Help Meet Growing Electricity Demand and Bring Cost Savings The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) today applauded the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Board of Directors’ vote to request Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of a tariff to enable SPP to begin offering its Markets+ Western day-ahead electricity market and related services. […]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) today announced that Century Aluminum’s proposal for a new primary aluminum smelter in the Mississippi River Basin, with a preference for Kentucky, has been selected among 33 total projects for its Industrial Demonstrations Program. Century’s new primary aluminum smelter will rely on carbon-free […]

LPPC, ACEG, CEBA, and NASUCA Lead Collective Effort to Balance Consumer Interests with Improved Transmission Planning A group of diverse advocates representing public power utilities, clean energy, consumer interests, and transmission developers have joined together to advance a proposal that encourages the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to integrate cost management protocols in its final […]

By Leigh Yeatts As expanded wholesale electricity markets develop across the western United States, the creation of a centralized West-wide greenhouse gas reporting framework has become essential, along with robust data metrics to support it. The West now has an important opportunity for new markets to provide cohesive, granular, and actionable data that customers need […]

By Kate Harrison Careful electricity resource planning plays a key role in enabling energy customers to achieve the Clean Energy Buyers Association’s (CEBA’s) aspiration to achieve a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity system by 2030. Reliable grids need resource adequacy, and planners must ensure projected resource mixes can reliably meet future capacity and energy demands under […]