At about a half-trillion dollars, the clean energy investments contained in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act present a game-changing down payment toward the United States’ climate goals. Analysts are now asking: How can we assure the most effective use of these funds?
Permitting reform is one key need that has rightly received attention. However, we pose that a broader suite of policy actions must be considered, the sequencing of which is essential to catalyze both the speed and scale of deployment required to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. This broader suite of actions can be identified and prioritized via a strategic approach we term “reverse-engineering”.
Reverse-engineering is a process of interpreting modeled energy scenarios through a project developer’s lens. A scenario could include, for example, the deployment…