Edison Electric Institute

Edison Electric Institute
Formation1933
Headquarters701 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004-2696
Location
Chairman
Pedro J. Pizarro
President
Dan Brouillette
Websitewww.eei.org

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is an association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies.

Its members provide electricity for 220 million Americans, operate in 50 states and the District of Columbia, and directly employ more than one million workers.[1] EEI has 70 international electric companies as Affiliate Members, and 250 industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate Members. The organization’s president is Dan Brouillette, who was Secretary of Energy in the Donald Trump administration from 2019 to 2021.[2]

In its official communications, EEI mostly cast doubt on climate change in the 1990s. In the 2000s, EEI no longer cast doubt on climate change. In its official communications, the organization however called for a delay in transitioning towards cleaner sources of energy. The organization heavily promoted "clean coal" as a cleaner source of energy ("clean coal" was mentioned as much as all other carbon-free technologies combined). Since 2015, EEI's official communications have acknowledged the scientific consensus on climate change, although its chairman in 2017 said he did not agree with the scientific consensus.[3]

In 2023, EEI lobbied against the Joe Biden administration's proposals to require upgrades to existing natural gas-fired power plants in order to curb climate-warming emissions.[4][5]

  1. ^ http://www.eei.org/about/members/uselectriccompanies/Documents/memberlist_print.pdf Archived 2019-08-17 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Secretaries of Energy". Energy.gov. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  3. ^ Williams, Emily L; Bartone, Sydney A; Swanson, Emma K; Stokes, Leah C (2022). "The American electric utility industry's role in promoting climate denial, doubt, and delay". Environmental Research Letters. 17 (9): 094026. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac8ab3. ISSN 1748-9326.
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