Clean Energy

Sep 19 2023

Three Targets of Commerce Solar Investigation Now Planning to Manufacture in the U.S.

What a difference a year makes, thanks to trade enforcement and industrial policy.
Sep 14 2023

Just How Much Money Has Been Invested into Clean Energy Technology? A New Project is Keeping Track

The Rhodium Group and MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research are teaming up on the Clean Investment Monitor to track "on-the-ground progress in the U.S. towards net-zero...
Sep 13 2023

Nevada May Be Home to the World’s Largest Lithium Deposit

The discovery of a huge lithium deposit in northern Nevada comes with all kinds of political, environmental and economic implications.
Aug 29 2022

Here Come the Clean Energy Manufacturing Announcements

They're following the clean energy manufacturing cash, provided in the recently passed industrial policy bill called the Inflation Reduction Act.
Aug 01 2022

It’s Been a Rough Year for America’s Solar Industry. Will the Inflation Reduction Act Provide a Boost?

A big legislative compromise between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) includes billions of dollars in incentives for domestic solar panel manufacturing.
Oct 05 2021

Center for American Progress Argues for Building Domestic Clean Energy Supply Chains

A new issue brief makes the case that America must reshore its renewable energy sector using domestic content standards.
Sep 24 2021

Georgia Senators Aim to Light Up U.S. Solar Manufacturing

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock want OMB to close loopholes and strengthen Buy American for federal solar purchases.
Sep 08 2021

The Biden Administration Wants Solar to Power America. But Will It Be Made in USA?

China now dominates global solar production, including by using forced labor. Can President Biden get the U.S. solar manufacturing industry back on track?
Aug 26 2021

New York’s First Offshore Wind Farm Will Be Served by the First American-Made Wind Substation

Engineering and construction firm Kiewit will build the substation in Texas.
Aug 03 2021

United Steelworkers, US Wind Announce New Steel Facility at Baltimore’s Sparrows Point

A portion of the former steel mill will be transformed into a manufacturing facility supporting the growth of offshore wind energy.