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This is a way, WAY bigger deal than you think.

Solar energy never should have become polarized in the first place. Energy affordability doesn't need to be a partisan issue, and solar obviously has a critical role to play. Glad to see the admin changing its tune: "Signs the White House is yielding to it emerged last week when the Interior Department revealed it is allowing several large-scale projects it had blocked to resume moving through the permitting process, acknowledging such installations align with Trump’s energy agenda. In a call with reporters last week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who has called solar power 'just a parasite' on the power grid, also changed his tone. 'Is there a commercial role for solar power that can add to the grid affordable, reliable energy?' he said. 'Certainly there is.'"

No amount of capital will fix our electricity grid unless we solve the permitting and planning problems. It’s happening. It’s time.

WATCH: Secretary of Energy Chris Wright calls out the IEA to their face for having "massively gotten off track by a misunderstanding of climate change and the world energy system. I spent my entire life in the world energy system and over 20 years on climate change. But this belief that climate change is urgent, is causing catastrophic damage today, and we have to drop everything and focus everything on that, I can tell you nothing, nothing in the climate data supports that." Wright: "When the IEA was founded 50 years ago, a little over 80% of global energy came from hydrocarbons. 50 years later... No change even in the market share of where the world gets energy." Wright then calls out the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Fatih Birol: "If Director Birol is gonna drive an organization to make the world a better place, to have accurate data on energy, at communication among the country's storage, coordinating policies, we need to stay focused on that."