Advocacy Updates

CEBA and key stakeholders support Congressional efforts that would bolster states across the U.S. in their efforts to join, expand, and improve competitive, organized wholesale markets. These markets provide an effective pathway to reaching state decarbonization goals in a way that supports grid reliability, enhances energy efficiency, increases customer savings, and drives zero-carbon energy technologies. CEBA […]

CEBA joins key stakeholders asking for Congress to support the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) in the reconciliation process. This office plays a critical role in attracting private enterprise to clean technology investment and shepherding innovative technologies to market, which drives the technological development needed to reach a 100% zero-carbon goal. Click below […]

CEBA supports a more competitive wholesale market structure in the U.S. Southeast in order to maximize customers’ access to low-cost and reliable clean energy. CEBA, along with the Advanced Energy Economy and the Advanced Energy Buyers Group, submitted comments on August 23 to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging the Commission to assess the […]

As the Texas Public Utilities Commission contemplates changes to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market, CEBA supports efforts to holistically address cost-effective and customer-centric solutions for improving grid reliability. However, CEBA also urges the Commission to consider the negative impact that market changes could have on renewable energy development, and therefore economic development […]

CEBA’s membership supports substantive changes to the North Carolina House Bill 951 to meet the needs of all ratepayers in the state. In its current form, House Bill 951 would remove existing processes at the North Carolina Utilities Commission that provide oversight and customer protections. CEBA recommends amendments that would increase customer access to clean […]

CEBA joins key peer organizations urging Congress to support a dedicated program at the Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (DOE-OE) and the State Energy Program (SEP) that would provide technical and financial assistance to states related to organized wholesale power market expansion.

CEBA – representing over 30 major businesses with operations in North Carolina – opposes House Bill 951 introduced in North Carolina in its current format as it is likely to increase rates substantially for commercial and industrial ratepayers. Click below to download the full letter for additional details.

CEBA and other key organizations urge Congress to support the full funding proposed by the Biden Administration in Fiscal Year 2022 for the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), and the proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Climate (ARPA-C). Funding for these agencies is critical for ensuring continued research and […]

Following efforts to expand access to clean energy for all customers, CEBA joins key peer organizations to urge Congress to support infrastructure investments that reinvigorate and expand the benefits of organized wholesale power markets.

To learn more about CEBA’s engagement on organized wholesale electricity markets in the Midwest, see CEBA’s letter to the Midwestern Governor’s Association on the importance of Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) to businesses as they seek to access renewable energy in the region. Click below to download the full letter for additional details.