Industries That Power California
CLECA member companies produce goods essential for daily life, including critical infrastructure, oxygen for hospitals, and food distribution. They represent the steel, cement, industrial and medical gas, glass, beverage, minerals processing, cold storage, and pipeline transportation industries.
High Load Factor. High Voltage. High Stakes.
CLECA members are large, high load factor and high voltage industrial electric customers in California for whom the price of electricity is essential to their competitiveness and for whom the reliability of electricity service is critically important. For both reasons, CLECA member companies have participated for decades in the Base Interruptible Program (BIP), providing demand response to the grid in times of need. The industries represented below are illustrative of CLECA’s membership.
EAF rebar production, rolling mills, galvanizing lines, and steel pickling — continuous high-voltage operations.
Energy-intensive clinker production serving California’s construction needs.
Production of oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen, and CO₂ for hospitals, medical care, and manufacturing.
Glass bottle manufacturing — energy-intensive furnace operations running continuously at high load.
Beverage production and bottling plants requiring continuous, reliable electricity throughout California.
Aggregate and specialty mineral production serving California’s supply chains.
Temperature-controlled food distribution infrastructure, around-the-clock.
Transportation fuels infrastructure — including jet fuel and renewable fuels — serving California’s industrial and commercial needs.
Any large, energy-intensive California operation — if electricity is one of your largest costs, CLECA represents interests like yours.
Emissions-Intensive, Trade-Exposed
Many CLECA member industries — though not all — are formally recognized by CARB as Emissions-Intensive, Trade-Exposed (EITE) industries under California’s Cap-and-Invest Program — industries that face significant competition from producers not subject to equivalent carbon pricing. Keeping energy-intensive production in California, under California’s environmental standards, produces better global outcomes than forcing that production to states or countries with weaker environmental rules.
Reliability Through Industrial Demand Response
CLECA member companies have participated in the Base Interruptible Program since its predecessor programs in the early 1980s — making them among California’s most established and reliable demand response resources. Members commit to curtail 100% of their nominated interruptible load on 30-minute notice, providing dispatchable demand reduction that has been critical during California’s most severe supply emergencies.
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CLECA membership is open to California’s large industrial electricity consumers — in these sectors and beyond.
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