Consumer Energy Alliance

Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization created to help expand the dialogue between the energy and consuming sectors to improve understanding of energy security, more effectively develop and use both renewable and oil & gas energy resources in an environmentally conscious manner, create sound energy policy and maintain stable energy prices for consumers.

Carbon Capture & Sequestration

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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) requires capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and other industrial facilities, transporting it to suitable locations, injecting it into deep underground geological formations, and monitoring its behavior. Although this technology is has not been commercially deployed in the United States, it does have great potential as a method of reducing carbon emissions while ensuring that coal remains a viable component of our electric fuel mix.

In order to overcome barriers to deployment of CCS, policy and regulatory issues need to be resolved – including the adoption of standards for siting and monitoring of CCS projects and the establishment of standards and methods to govern the accounting of greenhouse gases stored in CCS projects.