Category Archives: Press Releases

ACORE Statement on the Administration’s Framework for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America

Statement by Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)   Washington, D.C. Feb. 12, 2018 – “The president’s proposed infrastructure plan is intended to leverage public capital to attract private investment, but it fails to build on the momentum generated by the largest source of private sector infrastructure investment for the past seven…

ACORE Statement on Energy Tax Provisions Included in the Bipartisan Budget Act

 Statement by Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)   Washington, D.C. Feb. 9, 2018 – “We are encouraged by the long-overdue extension of tax credits for so-called ‘orphan’ renewable energy technologies that were left on the cutting room floor when Congress extended the tax credits for wind and solar power…

ACORE Statement on President Trump’s Solar Tariff Decision

 Statement by Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)   Washington, D.C. Jan. 22, 2018 – “The President’s decision to impose a 30 percent tariff on solar cells and modules will raise electricity prices even as it costs jobs in the solar energy sector. Make no mistake, this is the government…

ACORE Statement on FERC Order Terminating Proposed Grid Reliability and Resilience Pricing Rule

Statement by Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)   Washington, D.C. Jan. 8, 2018 – “We are pleased that in today’s final action the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) declined to move forward with the Department of Energy’s proposed subsidy for coal and nuclear power, embarking instead on a new process seeking…

ACORE Announces Its 2018 Class of New and Returning Board Members

Washington, D.C. Dec. 7, 2017 – The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) today announced its new and re-elected Board members for 2018. Neil Gerber, Director for New Energy and Environment at IBM, and Kathy Weiss, Vice President of Government Affairs at First Solar, were re-elected to additional three-year terms. In addition, ACORE welcomes three…

ACORE Statement on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Conference Report

Statement by Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)   Washington, D.C. Dec. 15, 2017 – “We are grateful for the elimination of provisions that would have decimated future renewable energy growth and even penalized past investment in wind and solar power, but we remain concerned about the potential impacts of…

ACORE Announces Its 2018 Class of New and Returning Board Members

Washington, D.C. Dec. 7, 2017 – The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) today announced its new and re-elected Board members for 2018. Neil Gerber, Director for New Energy and Environment at IBM, and Kathy Weiss, Vice President of Government Affairs at First Solar, were re-elected to additional three-year terms. In addition, ACORE welcomes three…

Clean Energy Leaders Statement on Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in U.S. Senate

Joint statement by: Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO, American Council on Renewable (ACORE) Tom Kiernan, CEO, American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Matthew Mallioux, Director, American Conservation Coalition (ACC) Heather Reams, Managing Director, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Mark Pischea, President, Conservative Energy Network (CEN) Mark Fleming, President and CEO, Conservatives for Clean Energy (CCE)…

ACORE, AWEA, CRES and SEIA Submit Joint Letter Calling on Senate to Repair Provisions that Undermine Renewable Energy in the Senate Tax Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 29, 2017 – The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) together with the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions and Solar Energy Industries Associations (SEIA) today submitted a joint letter to the U.S. Senate raising urgent concerns with the Base Erosion Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT) provisions in the Senate…

Energy Industry Associations Tell FERC that DOE Proposal to Subsidize Coal, Nuclear Power Plants is Unsupported by Record, Would Throw a Costly Wrench into Electricity Markets

Joint filing from broad array of groups takes aim at financial “Beneficiaries” as the only entities to support the DOE proposal – and whose filings fail to establish that the proposed subsidies are needed or legally valid   WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 7, 2017 – A diverse group of a dozen energy industry associations representing oil,…