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TBEIC Receives Clean-Tech Program Award

Renewables with Battery Storage

Engaging consumers from families to businesses about the future of energy is an important part of our mission at CEA.  Supporting programs that will bring innovation and investment in clean-teach companies is necessary to ensure the development of all of our American energy resources.

“We’ve got some pretty cool partners to be part of this – groups like the Great Lakes Energy Institute, the Consumer Energy Alliance, the National Association of Manufacturers – to bring together what the future of this energy economy is going to be,” he says. “One of the things that’s most important to our companies is access to customers, so there’s going to be a lot around how to work with manufacturers. … The manufacturing track is going to be how to adopt these technologies, specifically, storage and microgrids or powering your plant and doing it efficiently.”

Read more – The Business Journal

NYC’s Amazon Debacle and the Need for Affordable Energy

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CEA’s David Holt looks at how vital infrastructure and energy projects have been unnecessarily halted due to extreme activist groups resulting in job losses and a lack of economic growth – much like that of the failed Amazon deal in New York.

Like the yanked-out Amazon deal — which eliminated 25,000 would-be jobs, more than $10 billion in incremental tax revenue and billions more in regional economic activity — the energy sector from coast to coast has seen various production and infrastructure proposals hindered, delayed or cancelled by one-sided and ill-informed extremists who put narrow, extremist politics before country and their cash-strapped, hard-working constituents.

Read more – Real Clear Energy

Maryland Needs Affordable Energy

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Even as Maryland’s economy is growing and unemployment is falling, CEA’s Mike Butler discusses the need for more access to affordable energy for Marylanders, who spend an average of $2,925 on energy bills annually.

Maryland has been blessed in recent years with a growing economy, a falling unemployment rate and lower-cost energy. Thanks to increased production across the U.S. and safer, state-of-the-art technologies, families and businesses here saved $8.5 billion in energy between 2006 and 2016.

Read more – The Baltimore Sun

New Yorkers Saved Nearly $30.9 Billion over past 10 Years Thanks to Lower-Priced Natural Gas

Lower Manhattan New York

ALBANY, N.Y. — Thanks to increased production of cleaner-burning natural gas and safer, state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, families, businesses and farmers throughout New York state saved nearly $30.9 billion between 2006 and 2016, according to a state report by Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA), with calculations originally developed by Orion Strategies.

Families saved close to $15.7 billion and commercial and industrial users saved nearly $15.2 billion, according to the report. The analysis, titled “The Big Apple Is not the Only Big Thing in New York, the Energy Savings are Too,” was released at a New Yorkers for Affordable Energy Breakfast, in Albany, N.Y., today.

However, more is needed, the analysis warned. Because of a years-long ban on natural gas production and unending pushback against pipeline expansion to help ease energy bottlenecks, New Yorkers still pay nearly 40 percent above the national average for electricity, CEA calculated. These needlessly high expenses are taxing for many, none more than the 2.7-plus million residents in poverty.

The analysis was the latest in a series by CEA detailing how the national energy revolution had increased job growth, disposable income, and economic investment and helped revitalize communities countrywide. In New York’s case, it also details how the state’s self-inflicted lack of availability to energy as well as the failure to build adequate infrastructure to deliver that affordable energy is harming cash-strapped families, manufacturers, and businesses of all sizes.

Additional highlights from the report include:

  • On average, each resident spent $2,524 to meet their energy needs in 2016. For the nearly 14 percent of the state’s population living at or below the poverty line, this translates to almost one-fifth of their income.
  • For heat, roughly a quarter of state households use fuel oil; almost 60 percent use natural gas.
  • New York is the sixth-largest natural gas-consuming state. About 40 percent of the state’s electricity generation is powered by natural gas.
  • New York is a top-five petroleum-consuming state. About 80 percent of it used by the transportation section.
  • The oil and natural gas industries contribute 258,500 jobs and account for more than $21.3 billion in wages statewide. It also provides over $35.8 billion to the state’s economy.
  • From 2000 to 2017, nationwide emissions of key pollutants have decreased, including nitrogen oxides (by 52 percent), sulfur dioxide (by 83 percent), volatile organic compounds (by 19 percent) and fine particulate matter (by 37 percent).

“The good news is that lower-cost, cleaner-burning natural gas imported into the state has brought some relief to families and businesses and helped lawmakers meet their ambitious emissions goals,” Mike Butler, CEA’s Mid-Atlantic Director, said. “The bad news is that there isn’t enough of it.  Those policymakers who continuously argue against natural gas, thwarting its development and production, curtailing pipeline construction and tying the state up in redundant, and often excessive litigation, are taking more money from those taxpayers who direly need cost savings.”

“Instead, more energy could be developed in state or delivered from nearby Pennsylvania and Ohio if New York’s leaders took time to understand better the economic and environmental performance related to natural gas production, usage, and infrastructure,” Butler added. “Those benefits include robust emissions reductions, usefulness as an ingredient for manufacturing almost everything we use every day (as well as the construction of windmills and solar panels), and electricity – as well as back-up electricity of wind and solar on cloudy or wind-free days. These are key facts that anti-development activists and far too many political leaders are may not know.”

To view the report, click here.

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About Consumer Energy Alliance
Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) is the leading consumer advocate for energy, bringing together families, farmers, small businesses, distributors, producers and manufacturers to support America’s environmentally sustainable energy future. With more than 550,000 members nationwide, our mission is to help ensure stable prices and energy security for households and businesses across the country. CEA works daily to encourage people across the nation to seek sensible, realistic and environmentally responsible solutions to meeting our energy needs.

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Court Ruling a Win for Environment, Economy

New Orleans Colorful French Quarter

CEA’s Kaitlin Schmidtke discusses how recent court rulings against anti-development activists have set the stage for positive economic growth and environmental sustainability in Louisiana.

By allowing this project to continue, energy will be transported to local refineries via the safest way known to humans — pipelines — to meet the growing energy needs of cash-strapped businesses and families. That includes lower-income households whose unnecessarily high energy costs would decrease if this project and other proposals like the federal government’s plan to open more federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico for energy development proceeded.

Read more – The Advocate

Group Touts Natural Gas Savings, Wants More Pipeline Capacity, Fracking

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CEA’s Mike Butler looks at how New York’s politicians are closing the door on providing families affordable energy as moratoriums on natural gas are announced due to constrained energy infrastructure.

“The good news is that lower-cost, cleaner-burning natural gas imported into the state has brought some relief to families and businesses and helped lawmakers meet their ambitious emissions goals,” Mike Butler, CEA’s Mid-Atlantic Director, said. “The bad news is that there isn’t enough of it.

“Those policymakers who continuously argue against natural gas, thwarting its development and production, curtailing pipeline construction and tying the state up in redundant, and often excessive litigation, are taking more money from those taxpayers who direly need cost savings,” Butler said.

Read more – The Times Union

Banning Offshore Drilling May Hurt Florida’s Economy

Parents and child building blocks

CEA’s Kevin Doyle outlines how calls to ban offshore drilling may hurt Florida’s economy and households, already struggling to afford $2500 in energy bills annually.

Advocating for an energy plan that increases domestic supplies of all resources — oil, natural gas, wind and solar, onshore and off, and in the safest methods possible — is the only way to balance the supply-demand equation and reduce energy expenses for these households, especially as the state’s population increases and energy demand climbs.

Read more – Miami Herald

A Growing West Virginia Should Make Everyone Happy, But Not Everyone Is

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CEA’s Chris Ventura and West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association’s Anne Blankenship discuss how developing West Virginia’s natural resources has had a positive economic impact on the region and how anti-energy efforts to “Keep it in the Ground” negatively impact West Virginia’s jobs, economy, and future.

A recent analysis by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute shows that delays in energy infrastructure projects and bans in energy development have blocked more than $91.9 billion in economic activity nationwide. It has also eliminated nearly 730,000 jobs and cost federal, state and local governments more than $20 billion in tax revenue.

Read more – The Exponent Telegram

$680 Million Pipeline Gets Green Light to Move Natural Gas From Oklahoma to Gulf Coast

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With more oil and natural gas being produced in the United States, increased investment in additional pipeline infrastructure is necessary to safely deliver this to American energy consumers.

A pipeline to move natural gas from Oklahoma to destinations along the Gulf Coast and southeastern United States got the green light from federal regulators and $680 million in financing for construction.

Read more – The Houston Chronicle

Don’t Penalize Shale Gas Drillers

Pennsylvania Farm

Mike Butler, CEA Mid-Atlantic Executive Director, reviews the benefits shale gas has brought to residents across Pennsylvania.

Any suggestion that the shale gas industry is under-taxed is false. According to the Pennsylvania Independent Fiscal Office, shale gas drillers paid just under $219.4 million in “impact fees” in 2017.

That is a $46 million increase from 2016. Overall, they’ve paid $1.5 billion in impact fees since 2011 – more than the severance taxes of Ohio, West Virginia, Arkansas and Colorado combined.

Read more – Endeavor News

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