American Clean Power
ACP-California | California Builds Power
American Clean Power-California represents the solar, wind, battery storage, geothermal and transmission companies building California’s clean energy future.
What We Do:
As the industry’s united voice, ACP-CA helps shape policy and regulation to make clean power achievable, affordable and reliable while delivering a new generation of energy jobs.
Priorities
- Build Faster: California needs to build faster and build bigger to meet rising energy demand and accomplish its climate goals. ACP-CA is ready with proposals to accelerate deployment, spend smarter and strengthen the grid.
- Transmission: ACP-CA is pushing California to to upgrade and build the transmission lines needed to bring new clean power online.
- Markets: ACP-CA advocates legislation to grow the market for clean energy produced in California while expanding clean power adoption and production across the West.
- Resource Diversity: ACP-CA is home to the California Council of Offshore Wind Leaseholders, which represents the five leaseholders developing the West Coast’s first offshore wind projects. The Council works with state leaders to promote smart deployment of the technology, which has the potential to power millions of homes and help California meet rising energy demand.
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In the News
POLITICO: The big, beautiful renewable energy scramble
California is jockeying with other blue states to lock in federal tax credits for renewable energy projects before they vanish.
Press Room
What ACP-CA is saying:
- August 29, 2025 – ACP-California applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom, Legislature for action to accelerate clean energy deployment and save money on electric bills
- July 23, 2025 – ACP-California proposes energy emergency order to maximize expiring federal tax credits, save money on electric bills
- April 23, 2025 – ICYMI: E&E News: Quirky California clean energy tax could cost ratepayers, report says
- February 20, 2025 – Statement: ACP-CA supports SB 540 to unlock benefits of expanded Western energy markets
- February 11, 2025 – Statement: ACP-CA, clean energy industry groups support SB 302 to speed deployment and lower costs
- January 30, 2025 – Statement: California Solar Symposium kicks off Feb. 10
- December 9, 2024 – Statement: ACP-CA Announces Wes Venteicher as New Communications Director
- September 11, 2024 – Oped: “Now is Not the Time to Block San Diego’s Transition to Clean Power” (Voice of San Diego)
- August 22, 2024 – Statement: CPUC Decision Authorizing Central Procurement of 10.6GW of Clean Energy
- February 5, 2024 – Oped: “CPUC Should Jumpstart Offshore Wind to Meet Climate Goals” (Capitol Weekly)
- October 7, 2023 – Statement: Governor’s Signature of AB 1373
- August 31, 2023 – Statement: Central Procurement
- May 18, 2023 – Statement: Governor’s Engagement in Energy Regionalization Initiative
- February 22, 2023 – Statement: California Joining White House Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership
- September 1, 2022 – Statement: Diablo Canyon Extension
- August 25, 2022 – Oped: “If Newsom Wants Climate Action, Why Dismiss a California Clean Energy Plan as ‘Fairy Dust’?” (Sacramento Bee)
- August 12, 2022 – Statement: Transmission Legislation, Clean Power Champion Awards
Contact Us
ACP-CA is a state project of the American Clean Power Association, the nation’s largest clean energy trade association. ACP-CA manages its work in California through a land-based subcommittee and an offshore wind subcommittee.
ACP-California Staff
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- Alex Jackson — Executive Director
- Molly Croll — Pacific Offshore Wind Director
- Wes Venteicher — Communications Director
Contact
For more information contact Alex Jackson, Director of ACP-CA.