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 […]

Expanded Market Will Improve Reliability and Bring Cost Savings for Customers The Clean Energy Buyers Association today praised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) acceptance of tariff changes that will enable commencement of the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO’s) day-ahead energy market for Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) participants. “Well-designed day-ahead market services will improve […]

By Tim Aiken and Bryn Baker The transmission system is the backbone of the U.S. electricity grid, and increasing transmission capacity nationwide is key in enabling corporate and institutional customers to meet their clean energy goals and expand their operations where and how they would like. Without reforms in how we plan, permit, and pay […]

By Kerri Metz and Priya Barua The Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) in September issued a Call for Evidence on the Effectiveness of the Use of Environmental Attribute Certificates in Corporate Climate Targets, and the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) this week submitted a response that demonstrates the crucial role that market certificates have played in grid decarbonization […]

By Kevin Hagen, Interim CEO of CEBA and CEBI This has been an exciting year for the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, and together we are playing a crucial role in driving the clean energy transition and reducing carbon emissions in the electric power system. Energy customers have voluntarily procured more than 71 gigawatts of clean energy in the […]