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.
Driving America’s energy expansion through the energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy industries
BCSE works with policymakers 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 stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and make the United States more globally competitive, while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality.
Lowering energy costs
Scaling up demand- and supply-side energy solutions to keep energy costs down
Expanding supply to meet growing energy needs
Employing market-based tools that create signals to invest and that leverage private sector dollars
Ensuring competitive U.S. leadership
Enabling American leadership in global AI markets and an expansion of domestic manufacturing
Key tenets of BCSE advocacy on energy policy include:
- Employ market-based tools, like tax policy, that create signals to invest and that leverage private sector dollars.
- Reform and expand capacity for permitting and siting processes at all levels to enable the build-out of efficient energy infrastructure and buildings.
- Promote policies that deploy demand-side and supply-side energy efficiency technologies to keep energy costs down.
- Promote legislative and regulatory policies that expand and modernize the electric grid and energy infrastructure, to support integration of new and flexible energy resources.
- Fund research, development, demonstration, and deployment of energy and carbon management technologies, supporting U.S. innovation in these expanding markets.
- Protect the U.S. competitive edge through trade policies that support the build-out of domestic supply chains and that recognize and support U.S. leadership in manufacturing and production.
- Establish clear and achievable emissions reduction policies at home and abroad.
- Help families and businesses prepare for and become more resilient to natural disasters.
- Set federal procurement policies that invest in efficient and modern energy products and services.
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BCSE works to engage with federal policymakers from both major political parties, highlighting the economic, environmental, and security benefits of energy efficiency and clean energy. Our coalition has worked for over 30 years to provide consistent, informative engagement with policymakers and stakeholders on the priority issues impacting energy policy.
At the state level, BCSE works with partners including the National Association of State Energy Officials and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners to tailor policies that meet regional and local needs and capitalize on local clean energy resources.
Related Policy Actions
- Comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Regarding Co-Location of Large Loads (April 23, 2025)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Energy and Water on FY2026 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2025) (Senate: April 18, 2025)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies on FY2026 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2025) (Senate: April 18, 2025)
- Letter to Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on FY2026 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2025) (Senate: April 18, 2025)
- Written Testimony for the House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources Regarding the Critical Minerals Security Act (November 19, 2024)
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- Letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees on FY2025 Appropriations (November 14, 2024)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Homeland Security on FY2025 Appropriations (House: May 13, 2024) (Senate: May 13, 2024)
- Letter to House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Securing Domestic Supply Chains for Critical Minerals (May 13, 2024)
- BCSE and CEBN Letter to Committee on Agriculture on Including Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Provisions in the 2023-2024 Farm Bill (House: May 10, 2024) (Senate: May 10, 2024)
- Letter to Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on FY2025 Appropriations (House: April 30, 2024) (Senate: April 30, 2024)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Food and Drug Administration on FY2025 Appropriations (House: April 17, 2024) (Senate: April 18, 2024)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development on FY2025 Appropriations (House: April 17, 2024) (Senate: April 18, 2024) (BCSE Member Requests)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on FY2025 Appropriations (House: April 17, 2024) (Senate: April 17, 2024) (BCSE Member Requests)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies on FY2025 Appropriations (House: April 17, 2024) (Senate: April 17, 2024)
- BCSE and CEBN Letter to Committee on Agriculture on Including Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Provisions in the 2023-2024 Farm Bill (House: September 18, 2023) (Senate: September 18, 2023)
- Comments in Response to the Preliminary Determination to Adopt Updated Energy Efficiency Standards for HUD and USDA Financed Housing (July 28, 2023)
- BCSE and CEBN Letter to Congressional Leadership on Protecting IRA and IIJA Investments in Debt Ceiling Negotiations (May 12, 2023)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration on FY2024 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2023) (Senate: April 20, 2023)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on FY2024 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2023) (Senate: April 20, 2023)
- Letter to Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies on FY2024 Appropriations (House: April 18, 2023) (Senate: April 20, 2023)
- Letter to Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on FY2024 Appropriations (House: April 12, 2023) (Senate: April 12, 2023)
- BCSE Comments on the Clean Energy for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings (February 20, 2023)
- BCSE Responds to Request for Information on Defense Production Act Authority to Accelerate Manufacturing and Deployment of Energy Technologies (November 30, 2022)
BCSE Energy Resources
Sustainable Energy in America Factbook
Energy Efficiency Impact Report
Minnesota Energy Factsheet
Energy News
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.