Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: June 3, 2025
Domestic U.S. cleantech manufacturing!
The U.S. is already seeing a boom in domestic cleantech manufacturing, with the potential for much more.
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Reasons For Hope
A new census from the American Clean Power Association highlights the incredible progress already made in building out domestic U.S. cleantech manufacturing in the 2020s. As of 2025, the U.S. already has 200 solar, wind, and battery factories online, plus 800 more facilities supplying earlier stage materials and subcomponents, which together create 122,000 jobs and $33 billion in economic value.
A few notable statistics from this epic clean reindustrialization:
73% of U.S. cleantech factories are in states that voted for the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.
A U.S. worker’s annual salary in cleantech manufacturing averages $118,000 (and $134,000 in solar manufacturing specifically!) compared to the average U.S. worker’s annual salary of $76,000.
One job in a clean energy factory leads to three more jobs in supporting industries!
“This is not our parents’ generation’s manufacturing…
There is automation, there is robotics, there is AI in these facilities. And that’s a good thing, because these are high-tech, high-skill opportunities that are being brought into some of these communities that are really eager to find ways to keep their best, keep their brightest in the places that they grow up in.”
— MJ Shiao, American Clean Power Association.
And this is just the beginning, with incredible potential yet to be achieved. If the long list of additional currently planned U.S. cleantech factories are able to be built, total U.S. cleantech manufacturing benefits could reach 579,000 jobs and $164 billion by 2030.
All of this current and potential domestic manufacturing success is now in danger, threatened by a senseless attack from the House Republican budget proposal that would cut the vital Inflation Reduction Act tax credits that support clean energy industries in America. Passing this budget would be an act of world-historical self-sabotage. A recent report from the Energy Innovation think tank has calculated that this proposed budget’s attacks on clean energy would decrease U.S. GDP by $1.1 trillion through 2034!
It’s all up to the Senate now, with the future of strategically and economically critical U.S. clean energy manufacturing hanging in the balance.
There is an interesting national security element to the solar industry. The drones that the Ukraine used to knock out 40 Russian bombers were made with the same technology used in solar power generation. It is essential for our protection that we manufacture cheap effective drones here.