ACORE Statement on Senate Passage of Reconciliation Bill

July 1, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The following is a statement from Ray Long, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) on Senate passage of the reconciliation bill:

“The clean energy industry has been clear eyed that a phase out of the clean energy tax credits was coming. While overall this is not the outcome we had hoped for, our industry will continue to press forward.

“Right now, American businesses have over $300 billion invested in renewable projects around the country. Wind, solar, and storage are the only energy sources that can be deployed at the scale and speed required to meet near-term demand and stabilize the grid. These technologies are essential to American energy security, supporting our economic prosperity and technological leadership. Right now, China is investing in clean energy to further consolidate their advantage in supply chains, manufacturing, and the AI arms race. They are focused on beating the United States – while we’ve just spent months debating which generation sources we support.

“We’re grateful to the lawmakers who stood up for policy certainty and a level playing field. The clean energy industry will keep building, keep hiring, and keep innovating. And we will continue to work with policymakers who believe that American energy leadership must include all technologies, including wind, solar, and storage – because our economy, our grid, and our global standing depend on it.”

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ABOUT ACORE

For over 20 years, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has been the nation’s leading voice on the issues most essential to clean energy expansion. ACORE unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. For more information, please visit http://www.acore.org.

Media Contacts:
Stephanie Genco
Senior Vice President, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
genco@acore.org

Dylan Helms
Manager, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
helms@acore.org

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Concepts Can’t Violate the Laws of Physics

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15 hours ago

February 28, 2026

Alice Rush

In the early days of 2GreenEnergy, my people and I were vigorously engaged in finding solid ideas in cleantech that needed funding in order to move forward.

I vividly remember a conversation with a guy in Maryland who was trying to explain the (ostensible) breakthrough that he and his team had made in hydrokinetics. When I was having trouble visualizing what we was talking about, he asked me to “think of it as a river in a box.”

“Oh!” I exclaimed. “You mean you take a box full of standing water, add energy to it get it moving, then extract that energy, leaving you with more energy that you added to it.”

“Exactly.”

I politely explained that the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, make this impossible.

He wasn’t through, however, and insisted that, in his office, his people had constructed a “working model.”

Here’s where my tone descended into something less than 100% polite. I told him that he may think he has a working model, but he’s wrong; if he believes this, he’s ignorant; if he doesn’t, but is conducting this conversation anyway, he’s a fraud.

“But don’t you want to come see it?” he implored.

“No. Not only would not fly across the country to see whatever it is you claim to have built, I wouldn’t walk across the street to a “working model” of something that is theoretically impossible.”

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I tell this story because the claim made at the upper left is essentially identical. You’re pumping water up out of a stream, and then claiming to extract more energy when the water flows back into the stream.

Of course, social media today is rife with complete crap like this. We’ve devolved to a point where defrauding money out of idiots is rapidly replacing baseball as our national pastime.