Trans-Pacific partnership will advance clean energy

The Clean Energy Council (CEC) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) have announced a partnership to enrich both organisations’ missions of advancing clean energy deployment in their respective nations.

The partnership aims to build a collaborative platform that will enable industry experts and stakeholders from both Australia and the United States to draw on each other’s expertise in creating successful policies, finance mechanisms and market drivers that will benefit both the Australian and US markets.

“This new partnership between Australia and the US demonstrates both the global significance of the Australian renewable energy industry and the strategic importance of the relationship between the two countries,” said David Green, Chief Executive of the CEC.

“This agreement to collaborate and share information with our US colleagues is evidence of the CEC’s national leadership in clean energy policy development, and we look forward to the opportunities this partnership will unlock for the clean energy industry in both countries.”

In partnership with Baker & McKenzie and the Australian Trade Commission, ACORE kicked off a week-long series of leadership round tables in Australia from 10 to 16 March, connecting US financiers, developers and manufacturers with key Australian corporations, financiers, politicians and civil-society organisations. The round tables will map out what cooperation between both industries will look like moving forward.

US delegation representatives included Citigroup, Denham Capital, Deutsche Bank, First Solar, IBM, Lockheed Martin, S&C Company, Recurrent, Sungevity, SolarReserve, Sunpower and Skadden Arps.