our mission
Accelerating the Adoption of Efficient, Cost-Effective, and Clean Energy Solutions for All Consumers
The Business Council for Sustainable Energy advocates for policies that support a diverse portfolio of energy options in the United States and ensure access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions.
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Market Trends & Factbook
The 2025 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook provides up-to-date, accurate market intelligence about the broad range of industries that are contributing to the country’s move toward more efficient energy usage and cleaner energy production.
Advocacy Areas
BCSE is dedicated to implementing policies that support a diverse portfolio of energy options in the United States and ensure access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions. Our coalition’s advocacy makes a crucial contribution to a policy environment that can drive sustainable energy advancements across the United States. BCSE’s policy priorities for 2025 include:
Lowering energy costs
Expanding supply to meet growing energy needs
Ensuring competitive U.S. leadership
Securing U.S. supply chains
Winning the digital innovation and AI race
Tax Policy & Implementation
BCSE supports tax policy as a market-based tool to create signals to invest in efficient and modern energy products and services. These are crucial to meeting growing energy needs, leveraging private sector dollars, and deploying demand- and supply-side solutions that keep energy costs down.
Energy Expansion and Modernization
BCSE works to ensure that policies, regulations, and public programs create durable markets and drive demand for a broad portfolio of sustainable energy technologies, products, and services. This work highlights how the energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy sectors work together to reduce stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and make the United States more globally competitive, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality.
Addressing Climate Change
BCSE calls for increased ambition and action to address climate change in the United States and around the world. Our coalition focuses on shaping comprehensive climate policies that address the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the resilience of our energy system.
Realizing 21st Century Infrastructure
To lead in the 21st century, America needs a modern energy system. BCSE works to enact policies to expand and modernize energy infrastructure. These include federal permitting and siting reform, as well as measures to improve the electric grid’s ability to manage load and integrate new energy resources.