CleanEcon

Our president @aliyahaq joined expert panelists and @Axios’s @ChuckMcCutcheon at @rff's #BigDecisions2026 to explore how clean energy can meet modern demand. The answer? Make it cheaper to build, faster to deploy, and reliable enough to become the default economic choice.

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“It’s time to measure progress not only by tons of carbon avoided, but by how much clean energy we actually build.” – @AliyaHaq in @heatmap_news. After decades of climate summits, it’s time for a new playbook: build faster and make clean energy the obvious economic choice.

New geothermal bill just dropped 🌋🌋 Sens. Hickenlooper & Daines have introed the Geo POWER Act. Authorizes DOE to offer innovative financing for next-generation geo demo projects. Aims to address high upfront capital costs for exploration & resource confirmation drilling.

What if America’s power shortage isn’t a demand problem at all? In @UtilityDive, CleanEcon’s Director of Strategy Maria Martinez argues the real issue is market design, and why fixing the rules is key to keeping electricity affordable. Read more: utilitydive.com/news/americas-…

Modernizing the grid is essential to keeping power affordable while enabling economic growth. 2/2

Encouraging to see @ENERGY moving to accelerate grid upgrades. Programs like SPARK, especially Topic Area 3’s focus on large multi-state transmission projects, will be critical as electricity demand grows from AI, electrification, and new industry. 1/2

In @Utility Dive, CleanEcon’s Director of Strategy Maria Martinez argues that America’s power shortage is not a demand problem. It’s a market failure. Read the full op-ed below 👇 utilitydive.com/news/americas-…

Next up in our Leadership Spotlight: @Farah_Benahmed, Director of the Innovation Initiative at CleanEcon. She shares why clean energy won’t scale if we treat it as a collection of breakthrough tech. Hear from Farah: cleanecon.org/leadership-spo…

Leading AI companies have set the right intention. Now the work of rate design and regulatory enforcement — including ensuring that new power is clean — has to match it. (4/4)

For the pledge to deliver, tariffs must: - Make tech firms pay for grid upgrades tied to their load - Prevent cost-shifting if data center plans change - Encourage flexibility in grid stress—using backup generation, not just load shedding. (3/4)

Yesterday’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge is a meaningful commitment: major tech companies agreeing to pay for the new power and grid upgrades their data centers require. That's the right principle. But a pledge is only as strong as the rules that follow it. 🧵 (1/4)

A milestone for advanced nuclear: @TerraPower's Natrium project in Wyoming just received an NRC construction permit, the first new U.S. commercial reactor cleared to begin construction in nearly a decade.  This is a key step for next-gen nuclear.  nytimes.com/2026/03/04/cli…

"A resilient clean economy depends on systems-level thinking.” In our latest Leadership Spotlight, Adria Wilson, Director of the Innovation Initiative, unpacks the real gap in our clean energy system. cleanecon.org/leadership-spo…

CleanEcon Director of private sector engagement Cristina Shoffner breaks down what founders and investors should pay attention to from last week’s State of the Union. If you’re building or investing in cleantech, listen below.

CleanEcon launched in October 2025 to help make clean energy the engine of America’s next economic boom. 🇺🇸 We’re focused on building infrastructure faster, scaling emerging tech and de-risking investment. Learn more: cleanecon.org

In 2025, the U.S. relied on clean energy more than ever before. Why? Because electricity demand kept rising and the economics made sense. To achieve our decarbonization goals, clean energy must win on the economics. In 2025, it proved that it could. Source: @BCSECleanEnergy

@t_blom The West is also where the best geothermal resource is. Here is what we are working on, a plan for a 10 GW data center corridor that will be powered by 24/7 carbon free energy from geothermal. fervoenergy.com/fervo-uipa-the…

Next in our Leadership Spotlight series is Daniel Wolf. @daniel_wolf1 Daniel breaks down why a 100% wind–solar–battery grid is economically flawed. He also confronts the question we can’t avoid: who pays for the grid we say we want? 🔗cleanecon.org/leadership-spo…

America is leading in clean energy breakthroughs. But too many technologies stall after leaving the lab — stuck in the “missing middle” between R&D and deployment. @Farah_Benahmed & @AdriaWilson1 examine how to fix our innovation pipeline: cleanecon.org/americas-innov…