Daily on Energy, Presented by AHRI: Utility trade group warns Biden 2035 carbon-free pledge would jeopardize reliability and affordability Print this article Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue! EDISON ELECTRIC INSTITUTE WEIGHS IN: The utility trade group Edison Electric Institute is skeptical about one of President Biden’s defining pledges: making the power grid 100% carbon-free by 2035. “The 2035 date would be an incredibly difficult situation to handle for most companies of the industry,” Tom Kuhn, the president of the institute, said yesterday during the group’s annual state of the utility industry briefing to Wall Street.