Energy Delivery
Energy Delivery
Providing the broadest access and delivering reliable energy to households and businesses requires excellence in energy infrastructure asset management: the planning, building, operating, monitoring, maintaining, analyzing, and replacing of energy transmission and distribution infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. The American Association of Blacks in Energy follows nine guiding principles to support energy delivery.
Values
AABE recognizes the significance of energy delivery infrastructure. We value the participation of historically underserved communities in discussions on energy delivery systems policy.
Supports
AABE helps to inspire the development of programs that support expansion of access to reliable energy delivery.
- We support consumer information and education on how key regulatory and legislative initiatives concerning energy delivery systems impact minority communities.
- We support the integration of renewable distributed energy resources, demand response, and related technologies to modernize the electric delivery system and give customers more options for their energy source.
- We support smart technologies, such as smart meters, to modernize the electric delivery system and give customers more control over their energy usage.
- We support investments to harden the electric system against major storms, cyber disruptions, and other significant events that can cause catastrophic economic losses to society and particularly to underserved communities.
Promotes
AABE works to further the progress of energy delivery initiatives.
- We promote research and deployment of energy delivery technologies that can spur economic growth and job creation in underserved communities.
- We promote the collaborative development of a resilient energy delivery system that supports economic growth and development for all consumers, especially those in underserved communities.
advocates
AABE takes action to create equitable energy delivery solutions.
- We advocate for policies and programs that prepare minority communities – business owners and individuals – for direct and indirect economic and job opportunities arising from investments in energy delivery infrastructure.
- We advocate for policies that recognize and address the disproportionate impact of rate increases in low-income communities, particularly minority communities, as a result of legislative and regulatory decisions affecting the energy delivery system.