Washington DC: Today the League of Conservation Voters released a new report: Driving Clean Energy Deployment highlighting recent progress state leaders have made to overcome barriers to build more affordable clean energy in their states. With energy costs for consumers rising 13% in Trump’s first year in office–even before the current global energy crisis began, the report notes that we need to deploy more clean energy as quickly as possible. Clean energy like wind, solar and battery storage are now simply the quickest and cheapest ways to get more energy online. In the face of a completely hostile, anti-clean energy federal government, Governors, state legislatures, state agencies, and local leaders across the country are driving efforts to meet surging electricity demand and get energy costs for consumers under control.
LCV’s Clean Energy For All program has been essential in building momentum, securing wins, and implementing landmark policies to drive the adoption of clean energy at scale. LCV affiliates in several states have already made tremendous progress working with elected officials to accelerate clean energy deployment by streamlining permitting, reducing barriers to development, and building local support for new clean affordable energy projects. This report lays out lessons other states and Congress can learn from these success stories.
“This is what clean energy leadership looks like today,” said Kathleen Meil, LCV Local Clean Energy Deployment Director. “Energy costs are skyrocketing and communities are looking for solutions to the challenges they face every day. While extremists work to block affordable clean energy on ideological grounds, real leaders are doing the hard work to advance responsible energy projects that deliver affordable electricity and lasting local benefits. LCV and our state partners are working tirelessly alongside state and local elected officials to secure local benefits, streamline the process, and actually build the projects their residents need. People need leaders willing to say yes, and LCV is standing right alongside them, ready to find more ways to build a clean affordable future.”
Despite the efforts of Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans to ban clean energy and cancel projects, renewables like solar and battery energy storage are the cheapest and quickest energy sources to deploy. Thankfully, state leaders and advocates are pushing back and delivering major wins.
See the full report here to see where this progress is being made today.
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