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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.
About Us - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Founded in 1985, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has over 30 years’ experience as a leading voice calling for smart energy policies in our region that help protect our quality of life and treasured places. Our expert staff is uniquely poised to tackle energy challenges and promote equitable outcomes that help our region’s ...
Two Years In: The Inflation Reduction Act is Benefiting Real People …
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.
Report Finds Clean Electricity Standard Would Save Hundreds of ...
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 ...
North Carolina - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
North Carolina. North Carolina’s clean energy industry has grown rapidly in the decade and a half since North Carolina’s General Assembly passed the Southeast’s first and still only Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (REPS) in 2007, which requires utilities to generate a portion of electricity from clean, renewable sources. In 2020 ...
Report: Achieving 100% Clean Electricity 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 …
The Clean Energy Transition: SACE’s Executive Director Talks ...
Aug 25, 2023 · On July 31, SACE’s Executive Director Dr. Stephen A. Smith appeared on the podcast “More Living with Jim Brogan” to discuss how a healthy environment allows all of us to live healthier, happier lives, and how investing in policies and tools that bolster clean energy and help us move away from polluting fossil fuels can help us get there.. Each week, Brogan and his guests discuss news and ...
Solar - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Jul 16, 2024 · Solar is a crucial part of a clean energy economy and SACE plays a key role in advocating for strong solar policy in the Southeast. This work takes many different forms throughout the region from electoral campaigns to utility resource planning to regulatory engagement. In addition to policy and advocacy, SACE provides a leading and non-biased ...
Climate - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
Aug 9, 2023 · Centuries of burning fossil fuels – such as oil, coal, and natural gas – have released carbon pollution into the atmosphere that is warming the climate, and the impacts of climate change already harm residents of Southeast through human health hazards, economic burdens, and reduced quality of life. Carbon pollution needs to be eliminated ...
Energy Efficiency - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is a leader in advancing Energy Efficiency throughout the Southeast. We promote cost-effective utility-funded energy efficiency programs to reduce customer utility bills, stimulate local job creation, and reduce the need for fossil fuel power plants.