10 Policy Principles to Seize the Electric Advantage
Electrification, powered by clean electricity, offers governments and businesses a major opportunity to strengthen competitiveness, improve affordability and enhance energy security. As businesses electrify, they need governments to provide clear and consistent signals of support for direct electrification combined with tailored policy packages that target both system-wide and sector-specific barriers.
This document outlines 10 policy principles for unlocking business action and investment. Taken together, these principles will help to accelerate the transition to electrification.
10 Policy Principles to Seize the Electric Advantage
White Paper: The Business Case for an Electrified Economy
These 10 policy principles are featured in We Mean Business Coalition’s electrification white paper. The white paper highlights how electrification is the fastest, most scalable way to both modernize and decarbonize the economy.
The paper also introduces We Mean Business Coalition’s Electric Advantage program as a platform for collective business leadership to spur action, reform policy, unlock investment and accelerate deployment of clean electrification at scale.
White Paper: The Business Case for an Electrified Economy

Seizing the Electric Advantage
Taken together, these 10 policy principles can help governments to seize the electric advantage and turn economy-wide electrification into a coordinated economic strategy that unlocks business action and investment.
Electric Advantage is a multi-year program focused on spurring industry action, reforming regulations and driving investment in electrification to accelerate us all toward a cheaper, safer, healthier future.
Seizing the Electric Advantage
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For more on the policy principles: Gillian Nelson, [email protected]
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