Catalyst with Shayle Kann Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
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Oct 6, 2025 Heather O'Neill, CEO of Advanced Energy United, dives into the state-focused clean energy revolution. She talks about the shift from federal efforts to state-level initiatives post-2010, emphasizing states' role in driving affordability and innovative policies. O'Neill introduces a three-principle playbook: build it, make it flexible, and ensure it's affordable. She highlights flexibility solutions like virtual power plants and regulatory reforms as keys to unlocking clean energy potential, urging companies to engage meaningfully at the state level.
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Three Pressures Driving State Urgency
- States face a convergence of rising electricity costs, load growth, and extreme weather stress on infrastructure.
- These pressures create urgency for practical, near-term energy solutions at the state level.
Use A Three-Part Playbook
- Use a three-part messaging playbook: build it, make it flexible, make it affordable.
- Tailor outreach around speed, grid flexibility, and cost to persuade state decision makers.
Clear Roadblocks To Build Faster
- Push for permitting and siting reform, expanded transmission, and faster interconnection processes.
- Advocate surplus interconnection and advanced transmission technologies to clear development bottlenecks.