Throughout Earth Week earlier this month, EEI and our member companies—the nation's investor-owned electric companies—showcased our clean energy leadership and voiced our support for the clean energy tax package pending in Congress.

We are proud to provide America’s resilient clean energy and to be leading the transformation of energy. Across the nation, we are working every day to get the energy we provide as clean as we can as fast as we can, while maintaining the reliability and affordability that our customers value.

For our industry, the path forward is clear—and the path forward is clean. Thanks largely to the leadership of EEI’s member companies, carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector are as low as they were in 1984, while electricity use is up 72 percent since then. At the same time, 40 percent of our nation’s electricity now comes from clean, carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, hydropower, wind, and solar energy.

In addition, dozens of EEI member companies have announced ambitious long-term carbon-reduction targets, including net-zero targets.

“America’s electric companies are part of the climate change solution,” EEI President Tom Kuhn wrote in an InsideSources op-ed that also ran in other outlets, including the Charleston Gazette-Mail, West Virginia’s largest newspaper. “We are proving it each and every day. With the right policies and with new 24/7 carbon-free technologies, we can help to create a clean energy economy, while fulfilling our commitment to deliver the resilient clean energy our customers need and deserve.” Read the full op-ed, "It’s Time to Pass the Clean Energy Tax Package."

Read the Earth Day issue of Energy Talk In Depth for more facts about electric companies’ clean energy leadership. Visit EEI’s Clean Energy and Climate Change webpage for more resources.