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While needed repairs to the nation’s transportation infrastructure – highways and roads – receive most of the media’s attention, our nation’s transmission grid continues to age. To discuss the importance of modernizing the nation’s transmission infrastructure and meet growing demand, ITC Holdings CEO Joseph Welch recently sat down for an interview with Bill Loveless, of [...]

Before the start of January’s New England Clean Energy Transmission Summit, ACEG’s Bill White spoke with the Associated Press about the potential of clean energy and how FERC Order 1000 will enhance New England’s ability to incorporate renewable energy into its power supply. All six states in the New England region have some sort of [...]

The New England Clean Energy Transmission Summit Wrap Up The New England Clean Energy Transmission Summit was a great success.  More than 200 participants, both in-person and online, joined our expert panelists and featured guests, Congressman Ed Markey and FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur for a robust discussion on the future of New England’s clean energy [...]

Attendees of the New England Clean Energy Transmission Summit will gather in Boston today to discuss the economic, energy and environmental challenges – and opportunities – facing New England. Keynote speeches by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur and environmental organizer Bill McKibben set the tone for the day, while other speakers will [...]

This event brings together key Federal officials from the Administration and Congress, their state counterparts, clean energy industry leaders and the environmental community and energy consumers to forge clean energy solutions that benefit our economy and our environment drawing on the full range of options from renewable energy to transmission infrastructure to demand side solutions like energy efficiency.

Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, in cooperation with the Conservation Law Foundation and the New England Clean Energy Council, will convene an event in Boston with electricity and energy experts to discuss why New England will benefit from developing transmission for renewable energy.

In a sign of confidence in the future of the American renewable energy market, one of the country’s top investors, Warren Buffet, is betting big on solar.

The EPA bid farewell to 2011 by permanently closing a long chapter in the history of our nation’s electric grid and opening a new one. The agency’s new rules restricting mercury and other toxic emissions will shutter some of our nation’s oldest, dirtiest, and wasteful coal and oil-fired power plants and move us toward a cleaner, safer and smarter electricity system.