Advisory grounded in authorship of the policy itself.

The $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund — and its requirement that 40% of benefits flow to low-income and disadvantaged communities — is not policy we studied from the outside. It is policy our principal helped author.

The Consortium’s energy advisory work is informed by engagement in legislative and regulatory developments touching some of the nation’s most pressing energy issues: supply across electric utilities, natural gas, oil, nuclear, solar, geothermal, wind, and coal; demand on both the utility and consumer sides; and the integration of clean energy and demand-side technologies into the market economy, including low-income and disadvantaged communities.

For developers: clean energy as underwriting advantage, not compliance cost.

The Consortium advises developers on clean energy technologies where they strengthen the project: building performance, low to zero-emissions supply, and incentive capture across multiple programs, and state-level structures — coordinated with financial advisors and tax professionals.

For companies and institutions: federal, state, and local energy policy advocacy.

The practice rests on leadership covering the supply and demand sides of the energy equation, including representing the nation's leading electricity IOU, natural gas, nuclear energy, and demand-side trade associations and organizations.

CEP Strategies Consortium

Vincent Barnes, Chief Executive Officer & Principal — vbarnes@epsconsortium.com — 202-531-6005

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