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Florida Power & Light revised its five-year rate hike proposal downward following protests from environmental and consumer advocacy groups, reducing the 2025 rate increase from 18.2% to 16.4%. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy praised FPL's…
“We're beginning to see best practices and case studies emerge from other places in the country that we can begin to deploy here in the Southeast”
The Florida Gulf Coast Hope Spot Festival in Dunedin on February 12 will feature sustainability-focused activities including a Tesla test-drive opportunity provided by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. The zero-waste event will include a waterfront…
“You don't have any of those issues in Florida”
Mayors from 24 cities across the Southeast, coordinated by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, are calling on Congress to adopt a national clean energy standard requiring 80% clean electricity by 2030 and 100% by 2035.…
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy released its second annual progress report indicating that 2020 was a record year for electric vehicle adoption in the Southeastern United States. The article covers EV growth trends across Alabama,…
“If all of the region's vehicle miles traveled were electric today, Southeast consumers would spend approximately $52 billion on electricity, reducing consumer transportation fuel spending by $42 billion annually.”
Duke Energy and a coalition of solar advocates including the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy announced a net energy metering agreement for North Carolina residential customers. The proposal includes time-of-use rates with incentives for EV charging…
Angela Garrone, Southeast Energy Research Attorney at SACE, discusses EPA's delay in issuing final carbon pollution regulations for new coal plants, originally scheduled for April 13, 2013. The delay creates regulatory uncertainty for projects like Plant…
“There is a focus on equitable disbursement of this charging infrastructure, getting it to the places where it's needed, including our rural communities, as well as low- to moderate-income and other traditionally underserved communities across the country and across our state”
Clearwater, Florida adopted a Green Fleet Policy in August 2021 to convert 100% of municipal light-duty vehicles to alternative fuels by 2040, with an interim target of purchasing only alternative-fueled vehicles by 2028. The city's sustainability…
“So you're talking about very little energy being consumed by those components of the car. Almost all the energy being consumed by the battery is to move the electric vehicle down the road. That's what makes an electric vehicle so efficient.”
The South experienced a surge in electric vehicle purchases in 2021, with the region seeing more EV sales than the previous two years combined, according to a report by Atlas Public Policy and the Southern Alliance…
“Until you drive an electric vehicle, it is difficult to understand what all the excitement is about. So we're putting policymakers in the driver's seat to experience the excitement first-hand and spur their enthusiasm for advocating for EV friendly policies that will grow North Carolina's burgeoning EV market.”
The article reports on the UN's announcement of the official end of leaded gasoline worldwide, with a focus on the economic benefits of transportation electrification in the Southeast. SACE released a report showing that electrifying transport…
