Updates on CEBA’s government relations and advocacy work on behalf of the renewable energy sector.
May 11, 2022
Washington, D.C. (May 11, 2022) – The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), which represents 300+ leading energy customers and their partners, calls on Congress and the White House to pass legislation that will lower energy costs, create jobs, mobilize private capital, foster innovation and accelerate carbon-free technologies in the power sector. CEBA’s membership makes up […]
May 3, 2022
Institutional energy customers drive a significant portion of the clean energy procurement in the U.S., and have voluntarily deployed 52 gigawatts (GWs) of new, large-scale wind and solar capacity have since 2014. Last year alone, energy customers contracted for a record 11 GW of new wind and solar projects. Of this 11 GW, 80% were solar energy […]
April 21, 2022
The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) strongly welcomes the Transmission Notice of Proposed Rule (NOPR) Addressing Planning, Cost Allocation and applauds the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its approach to balancing the need to accelerate integrated transmission planning with state input. The clean energy transition is underway but requires transmission expansion and optimization. Transmission is a critical enabler of reduced cost, increased reliability […]
March 29, 2022
The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) filed comments with partners Western Resource Advocates, Renewable Northwest, Western Grid Group, NW Energy Coalition with the goal to expand opportunities for energy customers to shape this developing market structure and to address governance changes needed as the Extended Day Ahead Market (EDAM) expands. The California Independent System Operator […]
March 17, 2022
The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) supports several key provisions within the Connecting Hard-to-reach Areas with Renewably Generated Energy (CHARGE) Act, which highlights the federal guidance necessary for regional transmission planning and emissions data to accelerate a carbon-free power sector, including: Improved Transmission Planning. With tens of thousands of megawatts of wind and solar power […]
February 8, 2022
January 18, 2022
In a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Granholm, the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) congratulated the Biden-Harris Administration on the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and expressed interest in sharing energy customer perspectives on how to implement critical data access pieces in the IIJA. The IIJA includes a […]
January 11, 2022
The Clean Energy Buyers Association filed comments on December 21, 2021 with the Arizona Corporation Commission in support of a continued and transparent investigation into regional transmission organization (RTO) participation. CEBA’s filing reiterates that energy customers support well-designed and well-implemented organized wholesale markets as a way to accelerate customer access to affordable, clean energy. Recent studies focused on western […]
December 15, 2021
The Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) filed comments on December 10 to the Texas Public Utility Commission’s Market Design Docket (PROJECT NO. 52373), marking the third filing for CEBA on this docket. The Market Design Docket focuses on reliability and outage concerns at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) that resulted from Winter Storm Uri. In this […]
December 1, 2021
CEBA continues to bring the energy customer perspective to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s July 15th Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR). This ANOPR reviews transmission planning, cost allocation, and generator interconnection processes. Holistic transmission planning is a necessary component of enabling the rapid decarbonization of the U.S. power sector. The November 30th reply comments address the value of […]
