Opinion | The New Climate Law Is Working. Clean Energy Investments are Soaring.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : For instance, the often cumbersome and time-consuming process of siting and building clean energy projects must be streamlined.
62% : The law is doing exactly what it was designed to do: encourage private investment in clean energy.
62% : This overall investment wave has the potential to drive a more rapid and efficient decarbonization of the economy while increasing the supply of clean energy and maintaining the country's competitive edge of stable, low-cost energy.
62% : If we build on the I.R.A.'s investment-driven model, the optimistic outcome of more clean energy, more economic potential and a stronger fiscal future is within reach.
61% : It seems clear already that the law will stimulate significantly more investment in clean energy than was at first thought possible while generating more revenue from high-income taxpayers to reduce the deficit.
60% : Last summer, in a meeting with business and labor leaders as Congress prepared to vote on the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden argued that it would result in "the largest investment ever in clean energy and American energy security -- the largest in our history."
60% : The I.R.A. is about more than just clean energy.
58% : The law did not provide all the necessary tools to achieve national goals for expanding our supply of clean energy.
58% : Policymakers should consider new incentives to expand energy capacity, like conditioning federal assistance to states and localities that reform land-use policies to allow clean energy development.
57% : Our allies have little to fear and much to gain from working with the United States to expand incentives domestically to deploy clean energy because it must be deployed everywhere, and the I.R.A. incentives will drive down the global cost of energy technologies.
56% : In energy production, companies have announced 96 gigawatts of new clean power over the past eight months, which is more than the total investment in clean power plants from 2017 to 2021 and enough to power nearly 20 million homes.
55% :Nine months since that law was passed in Congress, the private sector has mobilized well beyond our initial expectations to generate clean energy, build battery factories and develop other technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
55% : The administration has already forged agreements to harmonize these incentives with the European Union, Japan and Canada but will need to use all levers of its foreign policy to secure cooperative arrangements to build resilient energy supply chains, particularly for critical minerals.
50% : First, lawmakers must make it easier to build clean energy infrastructure in America.
47% : The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should more aggressively clear backlogs preventing clean energy projects from connecting to the grid.

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