ACORE Statement on House Energy & Commerce Hearing to Ensure a Reliable and Affordable Grid
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security held a hearing today with state utility regulators to discuss challenges to reliable and affordable electricity. Following is a statement from Ray Long, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE):
“ACORE appreciates the Subcommittee’s focus on the critical need for affordable and reliable electricity. The good news is that clean energy checks both of those boxes, particularly when paired with an upgraded grid.
“We’re at the beginning of an explosion of growth in electricity demand caused by the massive investments in manufacturing, data centers, AI, hydrogen, and overall electrification. These projects will help to supercharge our economy, create jobs, and position the United States as a global leader across a range of technologies. It is the wires and grid upgrades that we’re planning to build that will enable all of this.
“The essential role that transmission plays in ensuring grid reliability cannot be overstated. Just recently, during Winter Storm Gerri, American homes and businesses were able to avoid power outages largely due to transmission lines that imported power from less afflicted areas.
“Expanded transmission lines between grid regions can also save consumers money. A recent ACORE, Grid Strategies analysis showed how increased interregional transmission between the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern grids could save more than $15 billion by reducing the need for power plant construction, while also lowering energy costs by over $1 billion per year by allowing more affordable power to flow across a broader geographical area.
“ACORE looks forward to working with Subcommittee staff on measures to ensure that our nation builds the clean energy and transmission needed to enable a reliable and affordable grid.”
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About ACORE:
For over 20 years, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has been the nation’s leading voice on the issues most essential to renewable energy expansion. ACORE unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. For more information, please visit www.acore.org.
Media Contacts:
Alex Hobson
Sr. Vice President, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
hobson@acore.org | 202.830.3592 (o) | 202.594.0706 (c)
Dylan Helms
Associate, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
helms@acore.org | 202.935.6491 (o) | 727.290.8804 (c)
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The folks who posted this to social media write, “President Donald Trump’s recent comments on U.S.-Iran relations have prompted renewed discussion about American foreign policy.”
For “American foreign policy” I would substitute “Trump’s mental health.” After all, we are at war with these people, aren’t we?
Of course, most of us will remember Orwell’s “1984” and its line “War Is Peace.”
Every time I see something like what we have at left, I have a renewed sense of wonder: how can certain human beings be such terrible people?
FWIW, I more-or-less understand the MAGA base of racist idiots. I’m not happy that I live among them, but they don’t leave me scratching my head as to how they could have become who they are.
Randy Fine is no moron. His BA and MBA are from Harvard. There is no way he honesty believes that U.S. elections are rigged, or that Trump is an honest and effective servant of the American people. He’s simply a professional liar, and a traitor to his country.
I’m at a loss.
As we all can see, the narrative being offered by congressional Republicans has nothing to do with affordability, healthcare, the war in Iran, or any of the dozens of other issues that concern the wellbeing of the common person. Instead, it’s the singular belief that Democrats hate America, and will do everything in their power to destroy it, by ushering in communism as our new form of government.
But doesn’t that seem a bit far-fetched? Granted, we’re not as sharp as we were when our educational system was still strong, but what type of idiot finds this credible? Let’s take Bernie Sanders, elected to congress in 1990, as an example of an extremely visible progressive, a man who thinks that countries that provide free healthcare and education provide a better quality to life to their citizens than those that don’t.
Now, in his 36 years in congress, has he turned Vermont (see below) into a hellhole? Does anyone the IQ of a caterpillar think that he hates America?
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