The Advanced Energy Economy Institute, AEE’s educational and charitable affiliate, commissioned a leading industry consultancy, PA Consulting Group, to interview CEOs and top executives of advanced energy companies, across a wide range of technologies and services, about how federal policies affect their businesses. The consultants interviewed companies big and small, established and start-up, technology focused and service-oriented.
They took an open-ended approach, asking the executives these fundamental questions:
What are the primary business challenges faced by your firm?
How does your business interface with federal policy?
What changes to federal policy would you like to see occur?
Here’s what they heard back:
Business leaders want stability and predictability in market structures.
They want a level playing field with their competitors – with traditional energy, and with each other.
They want government to support research across a wide range of technologies.
They want subsidies that make new technologies more competitive to be limited in duration, and phased out in a gradual, predictable manner, not maintained forever or cut off after arbitrary deadlines.
They want government policies crafted around broad problems, rather than pre-ordained solutions so that the market can identify the best ways forward.
The Advanced Energy Economy Institute, AEE’s educational and charitable affiliate, commissioned a leading industry consultancy, PA Consulting Group, to interview CEOs and top executives of advanced energy companies, across a wide range of technologies and services, about how federal policies affect their businesses. The consultants interviewed companies big and small, established and start-up, technology focused and service-oriented.
They took an open-ended approach, asking the executives these fundamental questions:
What are the primary business challenges faced by your firm?
How does your business interface with federal policy?
What changes to federal policy would you like to see occur?
Here’s what they heard back:
Business leaders want stability and predictability in market structures.
They want a level playing field with their competitors – with traditional energy, and with each other.
They want government to support research across a wide range of technologies.
They want subsidies that make new technologies more competitive to be limited in duration, and phased out in a gradual, predictable manner, not maintained forever or cut off after arbitrary deadlines.
They want government policies crafted around broad problems, rather than pre-ordained solutions so that the market can identify the best ways forward.