Tell Congress to stop the senseless attacks on energy abundance in America!

The leading Ember energy think tank reports that the historically fast acceleration of solar power worldwide has pushed all low-carbon energy sources (renewables plus nuclear) to provide 40.9% of all of human civilization’s electricity in 2024, crossing 40% for the first time. Critically, even though the world’s demand for electricity keeps rising, clean energy growth is now consistently outpacing demand growth, meeting growing needs while cutting into incumbent fossil fuels’ market share.

“Solar power has become the engine of the global energy transition…

Paired with battery storage, solar is set to be an unstoppable force. As the fastest-growing and largest source of new electricity, it is critical in meeting the world’s ever-increasing demand for electricity.”

— Phil MacDonald, Ember

Furthermore, in a historic milestone, renewables plus nuclear produced 51% of America’s electricity in March 2025, while all fossil fuels combined produced a record-low 49%. What was deemed an impossible dream just a few years ago is now a barely-noticed real achievement. Despite political nonsense, economics keep driving clean energy abundance forward!

“Wind and solar power are pushing fossil fuels out of the mix.

The reality on the ground is not one of a return to fossil fuels in the US, it’s the continued growth of solar and wind power that will be the dominant driver of electricity generation growth in the US.”

— Nicholas Fulghum, Ember

Throughout its history, the United States has historically been at the forefront of world-changing technological innovation like this, and the market demand is clearly there to build and deploy lots of clean energy across America!

However, it’s increasingly looking like nonsensical political self-sabotage is severely damaging America’s chances of emerging as a clean energy leader. Like the rest of the economy, the hard-won U.S. clean energy manufacturing sector built thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act is reeling from the chaotic whims of the current administration, with illegal freezes on cleantech loans, grotesque favoritism to the dying fossil fuel industry, hostile bureaucrats in the executive branch, ridiculously chaotic trade policy, and horrifying attacks on the very concept of the rule of law adding up to a terrible business environment and the beginnings of a self-inflicted “economic de-development” of the country.

$7.73 billion in planned clean energy investment has been canceled in the first quarter of 2025 — mostly in red states. One company planning a battery component factory in the state of Georgia has already decided to relocate production to China!

The United States is shooting itself in the foot — or perhaps even a major artery in the leg — by actively sabotaging its own efforts to win a share of the ongoing and accelerating humanity-wide clean energy technological revolution. Congress must decisively act to reclaim its role as a coequal branch of government, stabilize trade and energy policy, stand up for the rule of law, and restore a measure of sanity to U.S. policymaking!

Tell Congress to stop the self-sabotaging attacks on energy abundance in America!