Clean energy manufacturing

Clean energy

Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.

Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.

By Kathryn Krawczyk . 26 December 2025
Solar

T1 Energy is betting big on all-American solar, even under Trump

The Texas firm says it’s a “great” time to be in solar as it churns out panels in a factory full of music-blasting robots and pushes deeper into the supply chain.

By Julian Spector . 25 November 2025
Batteries

Peak Energy's new battery is cooler than lithium-ion systems

The startup’s first sodium-based grid-battery project has a novel design that cuts costs by virtually eliminating the need for temperature controls.

By Julian Spector . 21 August 2025
Clean energy manufacturing

Chart: The clean-energy manufacturing boom is going bust

Since Trump took office, nearly $28 billion worth of investment in U.S. cleantech factories has been paused, canceled, or otherwise delayed.

By Dan McCarthy . 1 August 2025
Clean energy manufacturing

US solar manufacturers face steeper hill despite some wins in budget law

Manufacturing incentives survived in the GOP budget law, but solar factories will have to navigate subdued demand and detailed new anti-China rules.

By Julian Spector . 17 July 2025
Clean energy

Anti-China rules make GOP megabill even worse for clean energy

Tax credits for battery, geothermal, nuclear, and manufacturing projects survived — but restrictions on Chinese materials could make them near-impossible to use.

By Jeff St. John . 8 July 2025
Clean energy

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ law tethers the US to the past

The law takes a sledgehammer to key pieces of American industrial policy, threatening the development of clean energy — a vital 21st century technology.

By Dan McCarthy . 7 July 2025
Solar

The solar house is on fire, but Dean Solon is rushing back in

The self-made solar billionaire is forging on with a new U.S. manufacturing business, despite tariff uncertainty and the loss of tax credits.

By Julian Spector . 7 July 2025
Energy storage

LG opens massive Michigan factory to make LFP batteries for the grid

The $1.4 billion investment onshores production of a popular battery chemistry that had been almost exclusively made in China, amid tariff and tax policy uncertainty.

By Julian Spector . 25 June 2025
Clean energy manufacturing

Just how many jobs and GDP dollars do US clean energy factories create?

A new report aims to quantify how much domestic solar, wind, and battery production uplifts local economies. Its authors hope Republicans in Congress will take note.

By Julian Spector . 20 May 2025