In difficult and uncertain times, we are comforted by a clear vision and keeping our eyes on the prize of what is important. In the turbulent 1960s, one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite lines was, “The time is always right to do what’s right.” The new administration in Washington is off to a chaotic start, “flooding the zone” with Presidential actions, poorly configured funding freezes, and direct attacks on both people and the planet. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and discouraged. This is when having a solid bedrock vision is so important.
The science of climate disruption did not transform on January 20, 2025, nor did the importance of treating our neighbors with compassion, nor did the need to build on our clean energy successes in transportation and power generation, and grow good jobs in our region in the clean energy sectors. These commitments are what is right for our time today and every tomorrow to come.
When the federal government partners with private investors and local governments, we solve problems and spur innovation and economic growth. This is not an ideology; it is a proven methodology. Research has demonstrated again and again that clean energy options boost our national and local economies, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen our nation’s energy independence, and lower costs to save working families money – across political parties.
Our Southeast region should take pride in proving this, and here’s why:
- The E2 map tracking major clean energy investments in the private sector since 2022 shows that the Southeast leads the nation in clean energy projects — and the wide majority of these are in Republican Congressional districts.
- A recent SACE report shows the Southeast leads the nation in EV and battery-related jobs and private sector investments, capturing 38% of all national EV investments, with Georgia leading the pack.
- In national investments per Congressional district, North Carolina’s Republican-held 9th district tops the list, thanks to a Toyota battery plant being built in Liberty. The megasite is expected to create thousands of jobs and bring economic growth to the mostly rural area.
By 2030, clean energy investments will save the average American taxpayer $1,000 a year in energy costs. Already, 3.4 million American families have saved more than $8.4 billion on clean energy and energy efficiency upgrades that lower their energy costs. Cutting these investment opportunities will be a direct hit on jobs, businesses, and local communities.
Chaos is not a pathway to solutions; it is a distraction and a tactic designed for us to lose focus on the right thing to do in these challenging times. Here are two things you can do right now:
- Send a message telling your elected leaders that you expect them to stand up for clean energy,
- Join our next Clean Energy Generation call at noon on Feb. 14 to learn about ways we will keep moving forward.
All of us alive today amidst unprecedented climate disruption have the obligation and the opportunity to unite as the Clean Energy Generation. Join alongside us in these difficult times, together we are stronger. Let’s lean into what’s working and stay focused on the path that will lift up our communities and voices. Now is the right time.
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I subscribe to a social media feed called “I Love Old Homes” because I have an appreciation for the history of architecture, especially that which was built in what is now the United States between the late 17th Century and the 1930s. At the risk of coming off as weird, I try to picture myself living in some of these places, and some of these daydreams are quite pleasant indeed.
At left, we see something from the “beaux arts movement” in the Gilded Age of the late 19th Century that I find abhorrent. In its essence, it says that I have disdain for those less fortunate.
You don’t have a fireplace to keep you warm as you walk up one of your many staircases? What a tragedy.
We live in times when 1.5 billion people can’t get a glass of clean water and you want to live like this? You don’t care that the planet we live on is becoming more inhospitable with each passing year, as long as you can live in the most extreme upper end of luxury? There are rooms in your house that you’ve never even stepped in? Some that you can’t actually find?
Apparently this works for some, but not for me.
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ACORE Statement on Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act Substitute Amendment from President and CEO Ray Long
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ACORE Statement on Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act Substitute Amendment from President and CEO Ray Long
WASHINGTON, D.C. — ACORE supports the Senate negotiators’ agreed-upon Substitute Amendment for the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), and we urge swift passage of the bill.
This Substitute Amendment represents corrections and clarifications that maintain the bill’s goals — to fix our woefully broken permitting system. The Amendment specifically improves the transmission provisions, allowing us to make much-needed upgrades to our grid so we can build more clean energy.
This bill will help to put downward pressure on energy prices, improve our electricity reliability, and ensure we have enough power to keep the lights on for families and factories. The status quo of high power prices and anticipated energy shortages is unacceptable. This bill will streamline the build-out of our power infrastructure. The time is now.
Let’s get this bill passed and start building.
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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 convenes a membership spanning the full clean energy value chain—investors and financiers, developers and EPCs, hyperscalers and energy buyers, manufacturers and advisors. Our members were directly involved in more than 80% of the American clean energy infrastructure projects added to the grid in 2025. We champion all clean energy technologies including transmission, solar, wind, storage, geothermal, hydropower, nuclear, and beyond. ACORE members are the companies investing in and building tomorrow’s electric power system, accelerating infrastructure development, strengthening grid reliability, and enhancing domestic competitiveness.
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A friend from Texas writes: It’s been an interesting week! A lot to reflect on. And Texas seems to be the epicenter. Folks are pretty flabbergasted over the defeat of all statewide Republican candidates (including state supreme court justices) and the election of a Democratic party-controlled state house.
Yes, Texas blew everyone’s mind. I think what the GOP experienced was a double-whammy if you will.
Consumer prices are high, due at least in part to Trump’s inane and illegal war in Iran. This is impacting the lives of working class Americans.
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I’m pleased to be able to report that many people still have a conscience, which causes them to reject the GOP’s cruelty, dishonesty, dismissal of science, and criminality.
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