The Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA) is the senior public interest organization in the U.S. focusing on the energy, telecommunications and other network industries that provide essential services to consumers. With a focus on exploring the areas of common interest and narrowing the differences among stakeholders, CECA has developed a nationally recognized consensus-building process for resolving complex and contentious issues.

What Does CECA Do?

• CECA convenes forums on major and often contentious issues related to the network industries. These forums, usually lasting between six and twelve months, bring together the major stakeholders - utility and energy industry executives, members of Congress, officials of DOE and other federal agencies, state public utility commissioners, residential and small business users, scientists and academics, consumer advocates, and environmental leaders - to discuss issues and make recommendations for policy in the public interest.
• CECA develops reports on these highly important issues. For nearly thirty years, CECA's projects and reports have been on the cutting edge of public polices that affect consumers and small businesses.
• CECA provides essential information for consumers to make informed decisions regarding fuel choices, energy conservation, and new legislative and regulatory developments.

Through consensus-building, outreach, advocacy, and cutting-edge research, CECA is the foremost energy authority working on behalf of consumers in promoting sensible and responsible public policy.

DE Forum

The DE Forum Website is a comprehensive Internet-based resource for Distributed Energy information and a tool to assist users in the screening of DE technologies. This site is provided as a service to energy consumers and producers worldwide. The CECA sponsors the DE Forum report and Website.

CECA is a leader in promoting the understanding of DE and the issues surrounding its adoption.

The launch of this site follows CECA's year long Distributed Energy Domestic Policy Forum, where leaders in energy policy and technology created a vision for the role of distributed energy (DE) in society. The culmination of that effort is the report titled "Distributed Energy: Towards a 21st Century Infrastructure". As an organization dedicated to identifying and promoting policy initiatives that benefit consumers, CECA convened the Forum as a meeting place for diverse views of state and federal government, industry, utilities, non-governmental organizations, consumers, and environmentalists. As an outcome of these discussions, CECA is convinced that many, if not all, of the benefits described in this site can be realized in the years ahead through coordinated government, private sector, and utility action.