Buy Clean: Biden’s Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy through Federal Procurement

With the federal government being the largest energy consumer in the United States, late last year President Biden issued the Executive Order on Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability to set aggressive decarbonization goals for federal agencies. This Legal Update summarizes the executive order, the three primary contracting mechanisms that federal agencies have historically used to purchase competitively priced renewable energy and the regulatory nuances they entail.