Published

2 months ago

April 28, 2026

Alice Rush

New Report Highlights Clean Energy Investment Trends Amid Policy Uncertainty

April 28, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report on the energy investment landscape shows the clean energy market surged in 2025, and investment in clean energy projects is likely to reach a record high in 2026. Continued policy uncertainty and other factors could diminish investor interest in clean energy projects after this year.

The report, Clean Energy Investment Trends, was prepared for ACORE by S&P Global Energy’s consulting arm CERA Consulting. Other key takeaways from the report include:

Investment in renewable projects in 2026 could surpass 2025 investment as developers race to meet demand growth and claim expiring wind and solar tax credits.

M&A surged in 2025—especially in natural gas-fired generation—as AI raced to secure power sources. Q1 2025 M&A exceeded total M&A activity in 2024.

Canadian and European firms drove investment in and acquisitions of U.S. renewable capacity.

Emissions-free power featured in many large transactions in 2025, and private equity has been actively acquiring clean power sources, including nuclear.

“The clean energy market is primed to deliver the energy security, affordability, and reliability that American energy consumers expect and deserve,” said ACORE President and CEO Ray Long. “Developers are building projects and financial firms are investing despite current policy uncertainty, but if we don’t deliver stable tax, trade, and permitting policy, it could chill investor interest, jeopardize domestic industry growth, and threaten our energy independence.”

“Investments in US renewable electricity projects continued to increase in 2025 as power-demand expectations accelerate,” said Hill Vaden, Executive Director at S&P Global Energy, of the report findings. “Capital markets remain broadly supportive of clean energy projects in 2026 as developers rush to beat start-of-work deadlines; existing platforms embrace consolidation opportunities; and clean-firm innovators seek public market listings.”

ACORE is sharing the full report with its members. The report’s executive summary is available to the public on the ACORE website.

“This report is a continuation of the work that has made ACORE the leading clean energy think tank over the past 25 years,” Long said. “It will inform our members and the public about clean energy and the policies and market forces shaping the sector.”

ACORE will publish a follow-on report at its annual Finance Forum in May based on its annual investment surveys, showing how capital providers and developers view the U.S. clean energy investment landscape in the near and mid term.

Learn more about becoming an ACORE member here.

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About ACORE:
ACORE is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that operates at the intersection of affordability, reliability, and clean energy deployment. Our work is focused on stabilizing energy prices, strengthening the electric grid, and driving investment in cost-effective technologies to ensure that clean energy delivers for people, businesses, and the U.S. economy.

ACORE’s membership includes clean energy investors, developers, energy buyers, power generators, manufacturers, and energy providers. In 2024, nearly 80% of the booming utility-scale domestic clean energy growth was financed, developed, owned, equipped, or contracted by ACORE members.

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Renewable Energy

Metaphysics

Published

11 hours ago

June 27, 2026

Alice Rush

Here’s a very short video on the subject of metaphysics, the philosophy of being and reality.

It’s a great example of what I mean when I say that it has been a terrible last few centuries for philosophers.

In ancient times, if you wanted to know what the fundamental building blocks of the universe, you asked a philosopher, perhaps the ancient Athenian Democritus, who propounded the theory of the atom, which was, by definition, indivisible. Now we refer this question to the realm of particle physics.

Far more recently, those who struggled to know the ultimate nature of reality asked a metaphysician. Now, once again, we’ve put our trust in science.

I hope you’ll check out the video linked above.

Metaphysics

Renewable Energy

Invest in Small Wind … At Your Peril

Published

11 hours ago

June 27, 2026

Alice Rush

As a PhD colleague once told me, “If you don’t care how much of pay for electricity, I’ll get you all the renewable energy you could ever ask for.”

In this case, I’d guess the average price per kwh for the typical American household would be somewhere between $5 and $10.

They want you to invest. Have you ever asked why people with their own money at stake have abandoned these ideas 20 years ago?

Invest in Small Wind … At Your Peril

Renewable Energy

The U.S. Civil War Didn’t Need to Happen

Published

13 hours ago

June 27, 2026

Alice Rush

At left we see why Lincoln would have done well to let the Confederacy cede from the Union. He could have simply written a letter to Robert E. Lee stating:

Keep your slaves and your land…for now. Wait until you experience the effects of near-zero industrial and military technology development and the civilized world’s refusal to trade with you barbarians. By the end of the 19th Century, a stiff breeze will blow you away. Maybe some future U.S. president will invade you with a troop of Boy Scouts with slingshots, or maybe a handful of banditos will ride up from Mexico.