Heather O'Neill

President & CEO, Advanced Energy United · 1 appearance on the record.

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Heather O'Neill leads Advanced Energy United, a national industry association advocating for policies to accelerate clean energy deployment across grid-scale and distributed energy technologies. Prior to her executive leadership at United, she directed the clean energy and environment portfolio at the Robertson Foundation and currently serves on the board of the Climate Action Reserve.

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1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Heather argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Assertion Supported
O'Neill: Bipartisan governors are demanding PJM reform its interconnection queue backlog
“And so what we're seeing in PJM, right, is You have governors, again, both Republican and Democrat, really engaging in PJM on necessary changes and asking good questions, how can we clear this backlog, right, and really making sure they have the information th…”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 15:38 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth

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Prediction Not checkable as stated
O'Neill: H.R. 1 and current federal policies will raise electricity costs
“H.R. One and some of what the administration is doing are gonna raise electricity costs for all.”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 7:29 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Neill: New fossil fuel plants also face long timelines and rising costs
“Those resources are, the timeframe for getting those resources built and online is pretty long at this point. A lot of folks have pointed to that, and the prices are going up.”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 23:25 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Neill: US states develop the most politically resilient clean energy policies
“States are where some of our most forward-looking and politically resilient clean energy policies have been developed.”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 6:19 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Not checkable as stated
O'Neill: Regulatory red tape prevents deployment of ready low-cost clean energy
“Talking with our member companies who have low-cost resources that they're ready to build, You know, whether it's large-scale wind, solar, storage, and the like, and they're not able to deploy, right? They are tangled in red tape, they are stuck in line”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 11:27 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Insight
O'Neill: Framing clean energy siting around property rights wins bipartisan support
“First and foremost, you know, are you Protecting landowner property rights, right? So making sure that state and local governmental processes are not kind of impeding local property rights. And so that, again, a very conservative principle, and so I think you'…”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 14:16 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Supported
O'Neill: Bipartisan governors are demanding PJM reform its interconnection queue backlog
“And so what we're seeing in PJM, right, is You have governors, again, both Republican and Democrat, really engaging in PJM on necessary changes and asking good questions, how can we clear this backlog, right, and really making sure they have the information th…”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 15:38 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Opinion
O'Neill: Energy decision-makers persistently undervalue the capacity of existing grid infrastructure
“Everyone persistently undervalues just how much more we can get out of existing infrastructure. And in part, that's because the pace of innovation here is really dizzying. When we talk to decision makers, they're definitely not fully aware of the breadth of fl…”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 16:08 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Supported
O'Neill: Maryland PJM customers face monthly electricity bill increases up to $20
“In Maryland, right, in PJM's territory, customers are seeing their monthly bills increase by up to 20 dollars a month”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 8:48 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth
Assertion Supported
O'Neill: Texas legislation now requires state agencies to maximize demand flexibility
“In Texas we were able to pass energy waste reduction legislation earlier this year, and that requires state agencies to really work together to get the most out of demand flexibility and demand response programs.”
Heather O'Neill Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 17:40 Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Frontier Forum: A new playbook for clean energy growth Oct 6, 2025 20m
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