The Op-Ed, authored by Energy Choice Coalition Executive Director Robert Dillon, was published August 3, in Morning Consult.
The Biden administration’s ambitious goal of running America’s economy on 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035 is accelerating the shift to renewable energy and sparking a debate among policymakers over how best to encourage the clean energy transition without having costs fall entirely on consumers.
While the war of words between the fossil fuel and renewables camps has garnered the lion’s share of the attention, less has been paid to the importance of modernizing transmission infrastructure and the role of competition in incentivizing investment in a cleaner, more efficient and affordable power system.
Incentives matter when it comes to creating effective public policy, and a market model that encourages power generators and service providers to compete for customers is a far more efficient way to deliver the low-cost, clean energy and advanced technologies that consumers demand.