Member in Focus: Americans for a Clean Energy Grid
Partners in Wildfire Prevention is a coalition of organizations from various industries, regions, and sectors committed to raising awareness about the growing wildfire crisis and advocating for a coordinated, national response to wildfires. Our broad and diverse membership underscores that wildfires are a national issue.
To understand how grid modernization relates to wildfire resilience, the coalition spoke with Christina Hayes, Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), to discuss how they are advocating for safer and more reliable energy infrastructure.
About Americans for a Clean Energy Grid
ACEG is a nonprofit, public interest advocacy coalition dedicated to modernizing North America’s high-capacity electric grid. By collaborating with a diverse range of partners — spanning business, labor, consumer, environmental, and other sectors — ACEG advances policies that strengthen and expand a resilient and efficient transmission network.
Their Work on Wildfire Prevention
The broad group of stakeholders that ACEG represents, including transmission developers, labor groups, and manufacturers, is central to improving wildfire prevention measures and meeting growing energy demand. For ACEG and its supporters, addressing the current wildfire liability system is important in ensuring that infrastructure keeps pace with increasing energy needs. ACEG works to achieve this by engaging with its members, lawmakers, and other stakeholders to advocate for safer and more efficient infrastructure that lowers wildfire risk.
“Our supporters are united behind a common goal: modernizing and upgrading America’s grid with the safe, resilient, and efficient transmission infrastructure needed to meet today’s unprecedented energy demands,” said Hayes.
What They Support
The state-by-state patchwork of wildfire liability policies poses numerous challenges for the energy companies that deliver power to communities. Facing a unique risk landscape, ACEG notes that rising costs create challenges for energy companies seeking to invest in new resources and can ultimately increase expenses for households and businesses. To address this, ACEG supports national policies that reduce marketplace uncertainty, enable investments in reliable power supply to meet growing energy demand, and keep prices low nationwide.
“ACEG supports a national baseline framework that reduces uncertainty in the marketplace and creates the conditions for continued investment in the transmission and energy infrastructure required to meet growing demand and resilience needs,” said Hayes.
Why They Support the Fix Our Forests Act
While ACEG is primarily focused on national wildfire liability reform, both ACEG and its affiliated 501(c)(4) organization, Grid Action, support the Fix Our Forests Act’s (FOFA) strong emphasis on wildfire mitigation. ACEG views wildfire prevention and mitigation as vital to protecting land and communities while reducing the risk of damage to transmission infrastructure in high-risk areas.
Why Americans for a Clean Energy Joined Partners in Wildfire Prevention
“As a member of Partners in Wildfire Prevention, ACEG is excited to connect with like-minded organizations and continue advocating for a streamlined national wildfire liability framework that both mitigates risk and promotes the safe and affordable buildout and modernization of America’s electricity grid,” said Hayes.
