I’m within the early days in my new position main the American Clear Energy Affiliation. I’m wanting ahead to assembly with ACP members within the coming months to know what our member priorities are and what can we do collectively.
For the final two weeks I’ve met with board members, members of Congress, Administration officers, buddies and colleagues who run different power and enterprise associations. I’ve met with labor leaders, environmental leaders, and spent a ton of time with the proficient and hard-charging ACP employees. And as you understand, these are powerful points and nearly everyone has a distinct opinion.
However extra necessary, everybody I’ve met with needs to work with the American Clear Energy Affiliation to advance our power transition. There’s by no means been a extra dynamic or optimistic second for the U.S. and world power coverage. The crucial to concurrently develop and decarbonize our economic system whereas strengthening nationwide safety is the defining problem of the subsequent 30 years.
In my profession, I’ve tried to do two issues: to develop actual local weather options and construct the sturdy, bipartisan coverage essential to implement and maintain them. That is the second the place we’ve got to affix these two commitments to safe the promise of the outstanding laws that handed final 12 months and work collectively to make it occur.
I based the Bipartisan Coverage Middle about 15 years in the past as a result of I believed that our nation was really divided, however not ungovernable. We harness the ability of collaboration, and we mix the most effective concepts from each events, and we developed and advocated for principled and politically viable coverage options. We are able to and should do the identical to create sturdy, broad-based help for the clear power transition.
Day-after-day, ACP members are innovating. They’re investing, creating financial alternative and good jobs. I’m wanting to work with ACP members to be sure that each neighborhood within the nation advantages from this dramatic transformation.
ACP was created to tell, to prepare and to focus the curiosity and the perception of 750 corporations working collectively to construct a clear power future. We’ve lots of work to do, and I actually sit up for assembly with our member corporations and their employees so I can share our plan to develop the American Clear Energy staff and to strengthen the group so we are able to get the job finished.
