California large
energy consumers association
cleca Members Are:
California companies producing goods essential for daily life – critical infrastructure, oxygen for hospitals, food distribution. CLECA’s members represent the steel, cement, industrial gases, medical gas, beverage, pipeline transportation, minerals, and cold storage industries.
contribute to the local economy and provide good paying jobs
produce critical goods locally, reducing carbon emissions by avoiding high emissions imported goods
improve the reliability of the grid by providing demand response during heat waves
ceo of Timmerman Industries
large customers Need Safe, Clean, Reliable and Affordable Power
Affordable energy is essential for the global competitiveness of CLECA members, who operate energy intensive industrial processes.
California’s extreme power costs are pushing production across the border – increasing emissions and diminishing economic development!
CLECA members rely on California having a safe, clean and reliable electrical grid. And the power must be affordable, so that California’s manufacturing base can compete with companies that are located outside the state and outside the country. For many of the CLECA members, the cost of electricity is their single largest expense.
ceo of Timmerman Industries
Restore Electric Rate Affordability
California electricity rates have risen substantially and are projected to increase even more over the next several years to pay for wildfire-related costs, infrastructure improvements, and climate-related policies such as transportation electrification and building decarbonization.
The increasing burden of high electrical rates is deterring policy initiatives to electrify the economy and negatively impacting all classes of California ratepayers.
The rising electricity rates are impacting businesses as well as residential ratepayers and leading some companies to relocate their facilities in lower-cost states or other countries. Every time an industrial customer relocates out-of-state, it undermines the state’s climate goals because products with higher emissions will have to be transported back into the state.
ceo of Timmerman Industries
