Farah Benahmed, Adria Wilson, and Tori Fessenden of Breakthrough Energy outline three initiatives to spur innovation and climate progress.
- In the past few years, the federal government has implemented several landmark pieces of legislation to spur energy innovation.
- Policymakers can capitalize on these laws and drive clean energy progress by providing consistent funding to research, development, and demonstration projects at the Department of Energy.
- The federal government can also stretch spending further by modernizing regulations to bring projects online faster.
“Not only can we make further progress on developing and deploying the breakthrough technologies we need, but we can also spread economic and near-term environmental benefits across the globe as we do it. We can thank many for getting us here, and we will continue to rely on our diverse and bipartisan partners to keep pushing us forward.”
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