The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) is a nonprofit organization that promotes responsible and equitable energy choices to ensure clean, safe, and healthy communities throughout the Southeast. As a leading voice for energy policy in our region, SACE is a regional organization focused on transforming the way we produce and consume energy in the Southeast.

Jun 14, 2021 · A new SACE report, “Achieving 100% Clean Electricity in the Southeast: Enacting a Federal Clean Electricity Standard,” shows not only that is it possible for the four largest utilities in the Southeast to achieve 100% clean electricity, but there are several pathways to get there. A variety of different energy technologies and programs can …

Oct 4, 2021 · A new report by Energy Innovation finds that there is a growing consensus among expert researchers that achieving 80% clean electricity by 2030 would be feasible, affordable, reliable, and deeply beneficial to the economy and public health. The analysis examines 11 recent reports by universities, think tanks, nonprofits, and energy consultancies that study high penetrations of clean energy on ...

Mar 27, 2023 · Despite years of underinvestment on efficiency in the Southeast, a massive infusion of new federal funding and recent changes in utility resource planning create a once-in-a-generation opportunity to cash in our region's untapped energy efficiency reserves. Doing so now will lower customer energy bills, reduce the costs of shifting to renewables, and accelerate our path toward decarbonization ...

Sep 27, 2021 · The report finds that the studies from researchers at prominent universities think tanks, nonprofits, and energy consultancies collectively affirm that achieving 80 percent clean electricity by 2030 is feasible, affordable, critical to meeting national climate goals, and deeply beneficial to the economy and public health—all without compromising power system reliability.

Jul 15, 2021 · The research, conducted by the Clean Energy Futures project–a team with researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology; Syracuse University; Harvard T.H. Chan Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment; and Resources for the Future–finds that an 80% clean electricity standard (CES) by 2030 would prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and deliver well over a ...

Aug 8, 2024 · During the first several months of 2022, hundreds of SACE members joined thousands of clean energy advocates who spoke up and urged their elected leaders in Congress to pass the largest climate and clean energy law in U.S. history – the Inflation Reduction Act. Since its passage on August 16, 2022, the historic Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has enabled the creation of hundreds of thousands ...

Nov 24, 2023 · The Clean Energy Generation is making progress every day here in the Southeast. From the world’s busiest airport and historically Black neighborhood going solar, to renewable energy outspending fossil fuels, our clean…

Apr 7, 2023 · Bob Keefe is the Executive Director of E2 and author of “Climatenomics: Washington, Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet.” This op-ed was first published by the Hill on March 21, 2023, and is reposted here with permission from the author. Six months really isn’t a lot of time. It typically takes six to eight months to find or fill a management-level job. Getting ...

Feb 10, 2023 · A message from Dr. Stephen A. Smith, Executive Director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, on the defining fork in the road we are facing, and why we're being called to unite in action and purpose as the "Clean Energy Generation." Stephen Smith | February 10, 2023 | Clean Energy Generation, Clean Transportation, Climate Change, Energy Efficiency