Federal Policy Priorities for a Customer-Centric Clean Energy Transition
Large energy customers want a power system that decarbonizes the grid for all by dramatically increasing carbon-free energy delivered to all customers reliably, equitably, and at least-cost. At the same time, energy customers with ambitious clean energy goals of their own, want and need to have the ability to choose accelerated, cost-effective, carbon-free, and clean energy across the U.S. to meet their own goals.
As policymakers prioritize solutions to address today’s economic, social, and climate challenges, CEBA encourages bipartisan support for federal actions that expand access to clean energy for all energy customers.
CEBA Principles for Modernizing Federal Clean Energy and Transmission Permitting
Actions taken by both the Biden Administration and any economic recovery and infrastructure legislation should focus on leveraging the clean energy sector to create jobs and to support American competitiveness and leadership. CEBA’s support for policies that accelerate energy buyer procurement goals while also greening the grid for all can be advanced through three key federal policy strategies.
Leverage Organized Wholesale Electricity Markets for Grid Decarbonization
Improve existing and expand organized wholesale markets to achieve least-cost, efficient clean energy deployment.
CEBA supports the development of well-designed organized wholesale markets (OWMs) in line with our Buyers Organized Wholesale Market Design Principles in all regions of the country, operated by Regional Transmission Organizations/Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs). Organized wholesale markets produce billions of dollars in customer savings annually and are critical to maintaining reliability, system efficiency, and integrating clean energy onto the electric grid.
Organized Wholesale Market Expansion Brings Cost Savings & Reliability: Download our fact sheet.
Decarbonize the Grid for All
To green the grid for all customers faster, affordably, and equitably, CEBA urges the federal government to take swift action to harmonize and update the current patchwork of clean energy policies.
Collection and publication on emissions factors and resource mixes from every load-serving entity in the U.S. will support large energy customers in understanding and accounting for the carbon impact of the power they consume, thereby improving the ability to decarbonize.
Support Innovation to Advance a Resilient Affordable Clean Energy System
CEBA supports increasing federal funding for clean energy technology research, development, and demonstration.
Federal energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) is significantly underfunded, resulting in an unsurmountable barrier for promising, pre-commercial clean energy technologies on the path to market. Energy customers have an important role to play, in partnership with the federal government, by providing crucial product feedback and testing technologies in real-world environments.