Grow domestic investments in innovative clean energy solutions.
Investment in clean energy innovation is not rising to the scale necessary to meet rising energy demand, avoid reliability crises, and reduce emissions causing climate change. We need to rethink the clean energy innovation pipeline from the lab all the way through deployment.
It’s time to go beyond technology-specific approaches and make investing in clean energy solutions a standing national priority. We’re working to write and advance new policies that will power the engine of our future economic growth – from research, development, and manufacturing to the deployment of clean energy technologies.
Achieving a clean energy system will require innovation and investment from both the public and private sector. Together, we can ensure that the best solutions are developed and deployed, and that the United States leads the world in putting in place high-quality products, high-quality production methods, and successfully deploys cutting-edge clean technologies that will work for diverse and changing communities.
To do this, capital-intensive clean energy solutions must compete against incumbent energy solutions in an economic sector characterized by low operating costs and long investment horizons.
We are working toward:
The U.S. federal clean energy innovation pipeline is running at its swiftest clip ever. Reducing funding to a trickle would mean failing to follow through on the technologies we need to compete globally, power the economy, and reduce emissions.
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