Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: The Clean Energy Buyers Alliance (CEBA), formerly the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA), demonstrates policy engagement that is supportive of science-aligned climate policy. The industry group exhibits positive policy positions on US climate policy and has advocated for the maintenance of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s climate incentives. Although CEBA broadly advocates for measures to increase clean energy deployment, it has taken contradictory positions on the long-term role of fossil fuels in recent years, especially in statements calling for permitting reform.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: CEBA demonstrates positive top-line messaging on climate policy. In a September 2023 joint letter with the Global Renewables Alliance, the group called for GHG emissions reductions in line with a 1.5°C pathway and greater ambition at COP28.
Engagement with Climate-Related Policy: CEBA appears to take broadly positive positions on climate-related policy, although with seemingly less engagement in recent years (2024-2025). In February 2023, CEBA submitted comments in support of the Biden Administration’s Federal Acquisition Regulation, which proposed to direct federal contractors to set science-based targets to reduce their GHG emissions.
Positioning on Energy Transition: CEBA appears to take mostly positive positions on the energy transition, although with increasingly unclear or deregulatory positions around permitting reform. At the federal level, CEBA CEO Rich Powell was vocal in defending the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)’s climate incentives during the formation and passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA): starting at the beginning of 2025, Powell issued consistent statements advocating for policymakers to maintain the IRA’s technology-neutral tax credits, culminating in a July 2025 press release in which he emphasized that the OBBBA’s repeal of the wind and solar tax credits “will drive up electricity prices in the coming years.” Previously, CEBA released a February 2025 report demonstrating how a repeal of renewables incentives would increase costs and cause a shift toward new fossil gas infrastructure.
Although CEBA appears to support a transition toward renewables, its position on the energy mix has been mixed in recent years, especially in advocacy around permitting reform. The industry group appeared to support the transition away from fossil fuels, emphasizing in its August 2023 report on clean energy procurement that “it is vital that this transition away from fossil-based energy is executed swiftly and intentionally.” However, in a February 2025 joint letter to Congress advocating for the maintenance of the IRA’s hydrogen tax credit, it emphasized a prominent role for fossil gas as a feedstock for eligible hydrogen production. Similarly, CEBA signed a September 2025 coalition letter advocating for the SPEED Act, which proposes to limit the scope and rigor of the National Environmental Policy Act in ways that may expedite fossil fuel projects.