Clean energy's yearly report card

Every year, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy partners
with BloombergNEF to produce the Sustainable Energy in America
Factbook, a compilation of charts, graphs, and statistics about
the US clean-energy industry and where it's headed.


The 2023 edition is out and it shows a record year for investment
in clean energy and installations of renewables — alongside
record demand for natural gas and record investment in gas
infrastructure.


To chat about some of the numbers, I contacted Lisa Jacobson,
president of BCSE. We talked about the momentum behind clean
energy, the enormous investments uncorked by the Inflation
Reduction Act, the supply-chain difficulties that plagued the
industry this year, the backlash to ESG investing, and the surge
in energy storage.


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