Celebrating 25 Years of Sustainable Energy Advantage

This year marks a significant milestone for Sustainable Energy Advantage, LLC — our 25th anniversary! Over the past quarter-century, we’ve proudly provided our clients with grounded analysis, 360° perspectives, and actionable insights to advance and animate sustainable solutions to some of our thorniest clean energy challenges. Along the way, we’ve supported an astounding diversity of clients, partnered with some of the brightest minds, and helped launch the careers of a growing number of problem solvers.

What began as a one-person venture has grown into a robust and nearly 30-strong team of motivated colleagues dedicated to impacting the development, deployment of and continuous improvement of policies, institutions, companies, projects and viable solutions necessary to accomplish the ambitions of the diverse communities we serve.  None of this would have been possible without the trust and collaboration of our incredible network of clients, colleagues, and partners. As we celebrate this milestone, we look forward to the future with renewed determination to tackle the complex and exciting challenges in our field.

In honor of our 25^th year, we’re excited to launch this quarterly newsletter. Through it, we will share insights from our latest work, highlight ways in which we can help you navigate your toughest challenges, and introduce new services designed to support your success. We hope this approach makes the newsletters worth your scarce time to read. We welcome your feedback.

In this first edition, you’ll find a sampling of insights and key trends shaping the clean energy landscape, spanning a range of our activities, including:

• The serious market participant’s common core: Announcing the launch of our flagship Eyes & Ears clean energy regulatory, policy, legislative and wholesale market tracking and analysis service in the PJM region, along with a special offer for Inaugural Subscribers.
• New England solar projects increasingly exposed to Class I REC markets: Many developers lack sufficient information on their 2^nd biggest revenue source to make good business decisions amid many uncertainties.  We can help with that.
• New York’s Clean Energy Standard Biennial Review: Probing the policy and market implications of potential changes on the horizon in New York’s Clean Energy Standard, through our upcoming webinar series distilling the state’s Biennial Review and stakeholder comments.
• Massachusetts Clean Peak Standard gets interesting: Illuminating the impacts of dramatic changes (with more to come) for the Massachusetts Clean Peak Standard resulting from recent Emergency Regulations and a forthcoming Regulatory Review.
• Helping states adapt, and justify, clean energy programs under rising cost pressures: Highlighting takeaways from recent SEA policy studies and benefit cost analyses being used to evolve the Northeast’s clean energy program landscape.
• Understanding expected retail-rate-derivative revenues to unlock DER investment: Announcing the rollout of SEA’s on-demand revenue forecasts for DER programs in Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• SEA’s offshore wind team in action: Distilling highlights from Northeast Energy & Commerce Association’s October 1 State of Offshore Wind in New England & Beyond webinar including SEA and other industry luminaries.

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Thank you for being part of our journey — here’s to the next 25 years!

Bob Grace

Founder & President