ACORE Welcomes New Senior Vice President of Communications

April 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) announced today that Stephanie Genco has joined the organization as its new Senior Vice President of Communications.

Stephanie brings nearly 20 years of communications, campaign, and policy experience to ACORE. Most recently at Fortescue, Stephanie led the company’s North American communications around green hydrogen investment. Previously, Stephanie was a senior public affairs consultant, building multi-channel strategic communications campaign focused on educating policymakers at the federal and state level. Her work within the energy industry includes a multi-million-dollar state ballot initiative for renewable energy clients, building an advocacy coalition of domestic solar companies, and leading multi-industry campaigns on federal rulemaking.

Stephanie brings a deep understanding of the intersection between policy, communications, and strategic advocacy. Her Capitol Hill career spans stints in House Republican Leadership, House Committees, and two cycles at the National Republican Campaign Committee, the campaign arm for House Republicans, first as an Independent Expenditure researcher in 2010, and later in 2016 as the NRCC’s Deputy Policy Director.

In her role at ACORE, Genco will lead all of ACORE’s communications efforts, with the goal of furthering ACORE’s position as a trusted thought leader for policymakers, the energy sector, and the American people.

“We are thrilled to have Stephanie on our team,” said ACORE President and CEO Ray Long. “Stephanie’s decades of communications expertise both in government and the private sector will be a huge asset for ACORE and our member companies as we continue our efforts to shape America’s energy future.”

“This is a crucial time for the clean energy industry,” said Genco. “We know that a true ‘all of the above’ strategy is key to meeting this moment of increasing energy demand. I could not be more excited to join an organization focused on telling the story of how the clean energy industry is ready to ensure the U.S. is a global leader in energy innovation.”

Click here to learn more about the ACORE team.

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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.

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Concepts Can’t Violate the Laws of Physics

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18 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.